Hui o Hoʻohonua

What We Do

Hui o Hoʻohonua is a community networking hub with three programs that serve the ʻEwa, Oʻahu communities of Honouliuli, Waipahu, and Mānana. Our hui works to combat social-environmental injustices that have impacted our ability to care for ourselves through land stewardship, public ʻāina based educational programming, and weaving a lei or partnerships that benefit Hawaiʻis agricultural properties and the people who have connection to these spaces.

We welcome volunteers from schools, organizations and businesses, community groups, individual/family units, and anyone else with a desire to give back to the place that gives us so much.

Who We Are

Hui o Hoʻohonua, HOH808, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization working on the island of Oʻahu to address social-environmental injustices through community engaged biocultural restoration opportunities scattered throughout the ʻEwa moku. HOH exists to serve the communities of Honouliuli, Waipahu, and Mānana through a variety of projects including the stewardship of three traditional Hawaiian aquaculture technologies (loko iʻa), two food and medicinal producing native gardens (māla), and a terraced pond field system (loʻi kalo).

We engage our community by hosting weekly and monthly volunteer opportunities, educating local youth and communities through ʻāina based programs, and weaving a lei of collaborators that share the common goal of empowering our community to love our home. Since our beginning in 2017, we have had the honor of hosting over 12,000 community members from keiki to kupuna and around the island who have participated in debris removal, invasive plant species removal, native bird habitat building and monitoring, and native plant replanting for more than 12 acres found within the ʻEwa moku.

Puʻuloa, today known as Pearl Harbor, was once abundant with over 30 loko iʻa (fishponds) and acres of loʻi kalo (taro patches) that fed thousands of people. It was said that the land that stretched between the Koʻolau and Waianae mountain ranges were full of the most fertile soil for successful planting and harvesting. Due to itʻs vastness, it is clear why the ʻEwa moku would be the political gathering center for our Aliʻi. Within the past 100 years, Hawaiians and other residents of Hawaiʻi have witnessed the transformation of ʻāina to land. When explained by Kupuna “.. ʻāina as a word has been translated so directly that we have lost the pilina to the word. ʻĀina is the land which feeds, and often we forget the “which feeds” part. Today, we no more ʻāina like how I used to see growing up, just get plenty land that has been robbed and depleted of its potential to take care of me and my keiki.” 

Join us as we work to transform land back to ʻāina! It will take many strong hands, hopeful hearts, and positive minds to restore traditional technologies and steward them appropriately. Find more information by connecting with us via social media platforms or the HOH website.

Cause Areas

Animals, Keiki, Kupuna, Environmental Conservation, Cultural Preservation, Education & Training, Community Engagement, Military & Veterans, Non Profit Support