By CHRISTINE BAER | Grants Manager
Dear Friends and Donors,
As we make preparations to close our 20-months’ long Hawaii Wildfire Relief program in March 2025, it is important to remember how much we’ve done since the program was initially conceived as a 6-month response. In that time, our trained staff and hard-working volunteer teams supported local grassroots efforts across an evolving spectrum of response and long-term recovery efforts, including:
Facilitating, coordinating and acting as a conduit to link spontaneous local volunteers to urgent community-based relief initiatives as they support the urgent needs of the affected communities.
Providing financial support for community hubs to stock their shelves with vital supplies for the affected communities and Engaging AHAH residential volunteers to provide volunteer labor to community hubs, food pantries and other distribution sites as they support the urgent needs of the affected communities.
Developing Ineligible Debris Removal as a free service to affected Lahaina property owners to get them one step closer to rebuilding their homes.
Facilitating local volunteer opportunities and community capacity-building events.
Our Impact
To date, the All Hands and heart’s Hawaii Wildfire Relief program on Maui has hosted 504 volunteers - including 341 longer-term residential volunteers and 168 community volunteers - who have donated a staggering 46,600+ hours of labor for a direct impact on 20,612 individuals. Plus, we had an indirect impact on 15,500 individuals in the early days following the disaster as the organization chosen by local authorities to coordinate spontaneous volunteer activity.
AHAH volunteers prepped and delivered 119,010 meals throughout the first six months of the disaster when as many as 12,000 people displaced by the fires struggled to meet their basic needs for food.
We provided 20 custom built multi-purpose units to help extended families shelter relatives in need of a safe place to sleep, provided volunteer crews to remove charred brush in the upcountry town of Kula, also affected by fires and developed a scope of work called Ineligible Debris Removal which allowed us to clear the remaining debris left behind by the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after their efforts to remove toxic chemicals and debris from the burn zone. This was a free service to property owners to get them one step closer to rebuilding their homes. 58 propertieshave been cleared to date with a total of 62 properties to be completed overall.
We are grateful for your interest and support.
Thank you!
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