Hawai'i-Based Mutual Aid & Organizations
Mutual Aid
Trans Hawaiʻi is a place for māhū, faʻafafine, two-spirit, trans, non-cis and non-binary+ folks in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Oʻahu based.
Organizations
Puʻuhonua: Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu was established by kiaʻi with the support of the Royal Order of Kamehameha ʻEkahi to protect our sacred Maunakea.
Puʻuhonua: Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae is a village of approximately 250 people living unhoused on the edge of the Waiʻanae Boat Harbor on the leeward side of Oʻahu. It is home to children, working families and kūpuna (elders). A majority of residents are Native Hawaiian.
AF3IRM Hawaiʻi breaks open the conversation about gender and fights for transnational feminist transformation in the following context: We are located at the headquarters of United States Pacific Command, the largest political theater of the U.S. military.
Nonprofits
Nonprofit: ‘Ekolu Mea Nui’s mission is to transform our criminal justice system through Native Hawaiian cultural practices and values.
Nonprofit: Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center serves Hawaiʻi communities by reducing the harm and fighting the stigma of HIV, hepatitis, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, and poverty in our community.
Nonprofit: ʻOhana Hoʻopakele is a community-based organization whose purpose is to restore balance in our families and our communities. Our focus is on healing the social ills that exist in our communities.
Nonprofit: Pōpolo Project is a Hawai‘i-based nonprofit organization that redefines what it means to be Black in Hawai‘i and in the world through cultivating radical reconnection to ourselves, our community, our ancestors, and the land, changing what we commonly think of as Local and highlighting the vivid, complex diversity of Blackness.
Nonprofit: Hawaiʻi Island Going Home Consortium has been leading efforts to provide innovative and culturally responsive reentry and reintegration services to former offenders, their families, and communities.
Nonprofit: RYSE empowers Hawaiʻi's street youth to move beyond homelessness.
Nonprofit:Women in Need is a non profit organization that currently helps victims of domestic violence, homelessness, substance abuse, incarceration and at risk women.
