As reported by Kaleo Wong at our last Hika'alani board meeting, close to 3,000 service-learners have worked at Ulupō Nui ("Greater Uupō," our name for the reclaimed lands that extend from the heiau to Kawainui) since the first of this year. This, as we tell all of our kōkua, is in keeping with the oldest of Kawainui traditions: community engagement. According to Samuel Kekoʻowai, people from Kailua and its neighboring ahupua'a came regularly, in great numbers, to mālama the pond and the lands surrounding it. Thus did we thrive; thus will we again return life to our 'āina. –KdS
Photo: Kaleo Wong