Apply for Aid or leave a tip for Oahu’s displaced restaurant workers. In response to watching restaurants lay off mass amounts of employees across Honolulu, we have decided to band together as a community to support one another. Following the lead of cities around the country, we created a virtual way to tip and support individuals in the restaurant industry. On our web page/ spreadsheet you will find a growing list of Honolulu restaurant professionals (bartenders, servers, hosts, chefs etc.) from your local restaurants who have either currently been laid off due to recent closures or who have had their income dramatically reduced due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial help.
Locals Restaurants, Businesses, and nonprofit Organizations Collaborate to Deliver 35,000+ Free Delicious Meals to Kūpuna Over the Shelter In Place Period and Invite Other Businesses to Join This Effort. Every $500 will be providing 60 meals to our Seniors. Restaurants will create 60 meals per day.
To address the nutritional and economic needs of the Hawai?i community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kupu has launched a free meal distribution program on O?ahu. Each meal is prepared fresh by our Culinary Program housed at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Ho?okupu Center in Kewalo Basin. Since March 23, Kupu has already delivered thousands of free meals and pantry items to youth and families. Beginning with Waimanalo, the program has now expanded service to Kahalu?u and has mobilized to include additional areas of high need.
Due to public concern about the risk of COVID-19 in public gatherings, Blood Bank of Hawaii is canceling all upcoming blood drives – including on neighbor islands – as of Monday, March 23. As the stewards of Hawaii’s blood supply, however, we must balance the need for public safety with the need to maintain adequate and continuous levels of blood. Meeting both needs requires a bold new approach. Therefore, we created a safe donation environment which complies with the social distancing recommendations while also allowing us to collect the necessary blood to sustain our
community.
HCF is working in close collaboration with state leaders, non-profit organizations, businesses, and philanthropists to get a clear understanding of the quickly-evolving priorities in our community. Grant reviews happen daily using our four-phase approach to resilience, outlined below. If you are a nonprofit in need of funding, please visit our grantee page here.
The economic impacts of COVID-19 on our island community threaten the wellbeing of our most vulnerable families – those who already struggle through poverty and others who are at risk of financial hardship.
We are continuing to provide food, emergency assistance, and basic needs, but we need your support now as more and more of our neighbors look to us for help and hope.
The Salvation Army has a food pantry Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:30 to 2:30 with dry goods and fresh produce (eggs this week!). Address is 296 North Vineyard Blvd.
Hello ES friends and family. The Ah Quon McElrath (AQ) gathering place on George Hall's third floor is such an active and exciting place. Imagine it. Students sit along the ledge waiting for class. Professors leave their doors open and give a smile to anyone passing by. The janitorial staff says hello. A student worker goes on errands. The graduate assistant posts up a new event flyer; it's an 'AWAkea. Don't you miss that community feel? Well, we are moving it online! Over the next couple of weeks the Department of Ethnic Studies will be hosting and posting events here. Be sure to check your email for updates. Also be sure to turn off notifications in forums! Perhaps the best part of the AQ Lounge Online is you don't have to wait for that terribly slow elevator. You do need a UH account to access Laulima though.
During this global crisis we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crisis, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives. Mindfulness and compassion practices can help us find an inner refuge, and deepen our loving connection with each other. This list of talks and guided meditations will support you through these difficult times.
Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and loving relationships. CoDA has a handy self-evaluation if you are curious.
Due to COVID-19 many meetings are either on hiatus or choosing to meet by video or phone conference. CoDA’s main website has a catalog of online meetings you are welcome to attend. While they continue to update meetings, there has been a lag in posting the new online listings due to the volume of requested changes. CoDA World Services suggests that you first reach out to local contacts asking them for direct information. Here is a list of meetings in Hawaiʻi with contact information if you want to talk to someone here or find an online meeting not listed. For other places, you can just tweak the search.
Telephone and internet service providers in Hawaiʻi have taken the pledge to not terminate service to any residential or small business for 60 days starting March 16. If you are affected, check the link.
Free lunches for kids under 18. Locations and times vary...advance to the second slide for info.
China is an untrustworthy, paranoid, autocratic state with a history of deadly epidemiological coverups (SARS), and it mishandled and lied about the covid crisis early on.
But covid is not a bioweapon. Nor did it escape from a lab.
Play games in real-time: Checkers, Crazy Eights, Euchre, Go Fish, Match Up, Remote Insensitivity, etc.