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RETURNING TO OUR ROOTS Kōkua Kalihi Valley
Grow, Prepare, Share
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KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY
Mission:
Together we work toward healing, reconciliation and the alleviation of suffering in Kalihi Valley, by
serving communities, families and individuals through strong
relationships that honor culture and foster health and harmony.
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Ho`oulu `Āina
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ʻAipono a movement
I ola no ke kino
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Sustainability protecting ancestral
abundance E ʻai i kekahi, e mālama i kekahi.
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have
wings or fins or roots. That is how we
consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story.
It has relationships.
– Winona LaDuke
The recovery of the people is tied to the
recovery of food, since food itself is
medicine – not only for the body, but also
for the soul and spiritual connection to history, ancestors,
and the land.
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Health is Connection
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Connection to Place
To have a kinship with ‘aina
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Connection to Others
To love and be loved; to understand and be understood
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Connection to Past & Future
To have kuleana, a purpose in the world
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Connection to your Better Self
To find and know yourself
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Connection
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Community Gardens Community workdays
Growing farmers training Supporting local farmers
Farmers Markets Mobile Market
Cultural Food Hub “Farm”-acy
Plant giveaways Produce giveaways Decolonizing Diets Food story sharing
Café &Catering Community food
business incubator Food demos
Ehuola – family health program
Cultural birthing classes
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Birthing a Nation Hawaiian Culture and Traditions in Childbirth Ka Lahui O Ka Po
Haumea was born with the entire Hawaiian race in her
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child parent midwife family land ancestor omen divinity
BIRTHING A NATION
kama mākua
pale keiki
ʻohana
ʻāina
kūpuna
hōʻailona
ākua
"These eight weeks have positively impacted my `ohana in so many different ways! Because of the classes my partner and I are better communicators, we are stronger lovers, and best of all - better parents. We lomi each other more, cook healthy meals with our daughter, and practice forgiveness more often! Our love for each other has truly blossomed when we started putting what we were taught into practice!”
"These eight weeks have positively impacted my `ohana in so many different ways! Because of the classes my partner and I are better communicators, we are stronger lovers, and best of all - better parents. We lomi each other more, cook healthy meals with our daughter, and practice forgiveness more often! Our love for each other has truly blossomed when we started putting what we were taught into practice!”
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“Attending the course Birthing a Nation marks the first step towards creating a healthy, vibrant member of the Hawaiian Nation and starts the child on a path to perpetuating their Hawaiian culture. We are fortunate to be able to attend a
program like this to allow for cultural knowledge to enter into what has become a needlessly medical tradition”
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APUHALA
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EHUOLA `Ohana Health Program
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Kalihi Jr Chef Competition
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We need to reclaim the palates of our keiki
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Roots Café and Cultural Food Hub
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Crop Shop and Mobile Cart
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2nd Saturdays
Community work days
Hooulu Aina Wednesdays 3rd Saturdays Kaluaopalena
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Thursdays – volunteers learn and help in the food and
medicine garden
Growing Farmers
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Elder Program
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Food tells a story…
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Connection
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ROOTS
Program Director
Sharon Kaiulani
Odom
Kokua Kalihi Valley
Comprehensive Family Services
841-7504
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We have to look at the natural systems that predate the monetary and colonial
systems imposed on earth and the peoples of the earth…How did people
live when they were relating to the cosmic nature of life, to the movement
of starts and the ability to be whole beings…
Nalani Minton,
Original Instructions…Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future