Aloha
Welcome to our homepage for the mālama honua course.
being mindful of our past with eyes on the future.
being mindful of our past with eyes on the future.
After setting sail on May 17, 2014 and embarking on a voyage to circumnavigate our island Earth using only traditional navigational techniques to spread the message of Mālama Honua to the world, Hōkūleʻa returned home on June 17, 2017.
After traveling over 40,000 nautical miles, over 150 ports of call, and 23 countries, Hōkūleʻa returned to share all of her stories with us. This mission seeked to engage communities worldwide on practicing how to live sustainability while sharing our Polynesian culture, learning from the past and from each other, creating global relationships, and inspiring action to care for our Island Earth. It was an amazing and powerful event which brought the World Wide Voyage to an end, but signified the start of sharing these stories of hope with our islands and to inspire your own voyages to make a difference in our communities at home. |
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To begin to connect and strengthen ties to our sense of place and ahupuaʻa, our papa was taken on a tour of our Kula Kiʻekiʻe. We were looking at the power of names of our buildings and the stories that accompany them. Gaining the information and making it our own will allow for the moʻolelo to be perpetuated and to keep their names alive.
Also we gathered ʻike from recent Kamehameha graduate, Vance Farrant (ʻ17), who came to share moʻolelo of Hui Kuawehi. They are working to have our campus see our open spaces and the plants and trees differently and how might we be able to use our areas to produce food items for our campus and ʻohana. It helped to show that our voices have power and the haumana can make a huge difference as they are important parts of our community at Kapālama.
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The haumana were able to make connection to the powerful area of Mauli Ola and Mokauea. Our work took us to some kilo with our ʻaina to become more connected and to listen and share in her mana. We were able to discuss with Kehau Kupihea and some of the ways that we could mālama the area and to start projects that would help with the area.
It was a great way for the haumana to continue to build the connection with the Kapalama ahupuaʻa as we examine from makai to mauka. They will search ways to learn from their experiences to seek out ways to implement their knowledge out in their communities. It is our hope that we will begin data collection of the Kapālama ahupuaʻa to create baseline data to examine the overall health of our area. This can help to shape the work we can do to improve the community that we reside in to make a better future for others. |
Our haumana have been working on setting up many of our growing systems outside as well as our indoor systems to seek more information upon ways that we can move towards food sustainability in you communities and in Hawaiʻi.
Through the knowledge and understanding of food and the challenges that we may face here in Hawaiʻi, we want our haumana to become aware, experience and be active change agents in the food production for our Papa Malama Honua. |
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The Malama Honua class will be taking all that they have learned this school year into action. They will be seeking out sustainability challenges around our Kapalama campus and to create an innovative and creative solution, to put into action and see itʻs effectiveness to solve the problem. It is a way to help our haumana to understand their kuleana to be active in their communities, both at school and near their home. Please visit our Hoʻoulu ia Kamehameha Section of our webpage to get more information.
Click below to visit webpages from the different groups and their projects: 2018 Period 4 Group 1 - hewauhonaike.weebly.com Group 2 - malamamala.weebly.com Group 3 - malamayourmama.weebly.com Group 4 - malamahonuagroup4.weebly.com Group 5 - ja-mm.weebly.com Group 6 - malamayourhonuas.weebly.com Period 6 Group 1 - kapalamanokaoi.weebly.com Group 2 - kehj.weebly.com Group 3 - eolakapalama.weebly.com Group 4 - sustainablekapalama.weebly.com Group 5 - malamakapalamaa.weebly.com Group 6 - huieono.weebly.com |
2017
Period 4 Group 1 - hoolako.weebly.com Group 2 - paepaethesustainability.weebly.com Group 3 - malamaikawai2017.weebly.com Group 4 - kuleananokapalama.weebly.com Group 5 - powerr4ngerz.weebly.com Group 6 - malamanamoku.weebly.com Period 6 Group 1 - hoouluiakamehameha2017.weebly.com Group 2 - hoouluiakamehamehanow.weebly.com Group 3 - imuakanaka.weebly.com Group 4 - 4daboys.weebly.com Group 5 - sustainkapalama.weebly.com Group 6 - kamehamehasustainability.weebly.com 2016 Group 1 - abetterplace.weebly.com Group 2 - malamakaiaulu.weebly.com Group 3 - sustainaboyz.weebly.com Group 4 - uluiakamehameha.weebly.com Group 5 - malamameaai.weebly.com Group 6 - hooulu-group6.weebly.com 2015 takefoodeatfood.weebly.com - Kayla, Kama and Kai sust-aina-ble.weebly.com - Kylie, Kainoa, Andrea, Kahi malamahawaii.weebly.com - Noʻeau, Kaʻuhane, Mahea sustainouryouth.weebly.com- Keenan, Tate, Kealohi |
Several haumana from Papa Mālama Honua were able to travel with haumana from the Celestial Navigation, Environmental Science and AP Biology to the Galapagos Islands. Our group of 10 haumana and numerous kumu joined haumana and kumu from Halau Kū Mana and the Marine Scholars Program from the Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology in our 13 day learning trip. We travelled 7,140 miles (11,490 km) over 36 hours to get to the Baltra in the Galapagos Islands. We were there to share mana with the beautiful ʻaina and people of the islands and to meet our waʻa, Hōkūleʻa and her crew as she spent time there. It was an amazing adventure to see one of the more powerful and protected places on Earth and the inspiration to Charles Darwinʻs origin of species in 1835, over 182 years ago. Please follow along with our journey here or from the haumana Galapagos blog.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. |