We are on the road

To building something extraordinary for our island community — a fully staffed community center,  safe transitional housing for youth aging out of foster care and soon, our very own group foster home..right here on Hawaiʻi Island.

Until these life-changing spaces are complete, your support helps us continue showing up for our keiki and ‘ōpio every single day — in our schools, in our programs, and in our community.

Together, we can create a future where every young person has safety, belonging, and the opportunity to thrive.

Choose the Impact That Speaks to You!

🌺 Humanity Hale Sponsorship Opportunities

✨ Support a Future Leader

Sponsor 1 youth for one program day
$13

Sponsor 1 youth for the full 10-week program
$130

Sponsor a healing meal for all 50 youth for one day
$650

Sponsor all 50 youth for 10 weeks
$6,500

Help us provide youth with the tools they need for cultural learning, regulation, and expression.

  • Art Therapy Supplies for 1 Youth (10 weeks) — $45

  • *Hawaiian Arts Supplies (kapa, natural dyes, hula tools) — $60

  • Trauma Regulation Tools (journals, grounding tools, sensory items) — $30

  • Programwide Supplies for 50 Youth (10 weeks) — $1,250

🍽 Sponsor Nourishment & Meals

Nourishing meals are a critical part of healing and safety.

  • Sponsor 1 Meal for 1 Youth — $10

  • Sponsor a Meal for 10 Youth — $100

  • Sponsor a Meal for 50 Youth — $500

💛 Sponsor Safety, Belonging, & Emotional Support

Support the heart of our trauma-informed work.

  • Sponsor 1 Therapy / Support Session — $75

  • Sponsor a Full Day of Programming (50 youth) — $850

  • Sponsor a Week of Programming — $3,400

🏡 Help Build Our Healing Home

For donors who want their impact to support the long-term vision:

  • Sponsor Transitional Housing Development — any amount

  • Sponsor two Tiny Home Units — $25,000

  • Sponsor the Community Kitchen — $50,000

  • Founding Donor (Land Match Fund) — $50,000+

Support a Future Leader

If you or someone you know would be interested in sponsoring a mentee (or a few!), or would like to contribute to keeping our programs strong and thriving, we welcome your generosity with open arms. Every gift—big or small—helps us provide healing, culture, nourishment, and safety for our keiki and ʻōpio.

We are also deeply grateful for community partnerships. If you have connections to grocery stores, farms, local businesses, or restaurants willing to donate meals, snacks, or supplies, your kōkua would directly support the well-being of our youth.

✨ 100% of all donations go directly to the youth of HUMANITY HALE.
Every dollar fuels healing, every resource supports safety, and every act of aloha helps build a brighter future for Hawaiʻi’s next generation.

Ways to Give

We gratefully accept checks, PayPal, Venmo, and through our website (Donorbox,) through the form below. All contributions are deposited directly into our 501(c)(3) nonprofit account, and tax receipts are available upon request for those who would like our tax-exempt information.

If you need our GE tax information for your records or for a tax credit, please contact us directly and we will be happy to provide it.

Checks Payable To:

Humanity Hale
(Please visit our contact page for our mailing address or to arrange a direct pickup.)

We also welcome in-kind donations, including goods, services, meals, and silent auction items. Every contribution makes an impact.

Mahalo nui loa for supporting our keiki and ʻōpio.
Your generosity helps us continue bringing safety, healing, and hope to Hawaiʻi’s youth.

For quick and secure giving, please use our Donorbox form below, or donate through:For quick and secure giving, please use our Donorbox form below, or donate through:For quick and secure giving, please use our Donorbox form below, or donate through:

We gratefully accept donations through:

  • Venmo: @HumanityHale

  • PayPal: humanityhale@gmail.com

  • Donorbox: please see our donation page

  • Check (made payable to Humanity Hale) -Please text or call our business line at (808) 990-7810 for mailing information or to arrange a pickup.

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Support Healing & Bright Futures for Hawaiʻi’s Youth

We are actively seeking grants, sponsorships, and individual donations to help us reach our annual operating budget of $240,000. These funds sustain the core of our work—supporting trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs that serve keiki and ʻōpio across Hawaiʻi Island.

Your contribution directly supports:

  • Programmatic services in schools and the community

  • Staff compensation for our trauma-informed team and kumu

  • Youth mentor stipends to uplift future leaders

  • Transportation for youth, ensuring accessibility to programming

  • Insurance, program materials, and cultural supplies

  • Organizational infrastructure that helps Humanity Hale grow with integrity and impact

To continue this vital work, we are building long-term partnerships with community organizations, grant-makers, corporate sponsors, foundations, individual donors, and volunteers who share our vision of healing and transformation for Hawaiʻi’s youth.

If you or someone you know would like to learn more or support Humanity Hale in any capacity, we would love to connect with you.

Together, we can create a future filled with safety, culture, belonging, and hope for our island’s keiki and ʻōpio.

Join us in the pursuit of healing and bright futures for Hawaiʻi Island.
Mahalo piha for your generosity and aloha.

Imagine the potential

when a community comes together with a shared commitment

Become a Hero for Hawaiʻi’s Youth

For just $10 a month, you can help transform the future of our island’s keiki and ʻōpio. Humanity Hale is building a trauma-informed, culturally grounded healing community in South Kona — a place where safety, belonging, and stability finally become a reality for our youth.

Our vision begins with:

🌺 16 transitional tiny homes
Safe, stable housing for youth aging out of foster care, houseless youth, and those escaping unsafe environments.

🌺 Den Mother Housing
Compassionate, trained adult mentors living on-site to provide daily guidance, emotional support, and safety.

🌺 A fully staffed community center
A hub for cultural healing, Hawaiian arts, ʻāina-based learning, therapy, life skills, mentorship, meals, and crisis support.

🌺 Room to grow toward serving up to 40 youth
The land offers expansion potential, allowing us to scale impact and ensure no young person is turned away due to capacity.

We are tired of a system that fails to protect our kids.
We are done watching youth fall through the cracks.
And we refuse to let another child face trauma alone.

Your $10 monthly pledge brings us one step closer to building this safe haven — a place where trauma breaks, healing begins, and future leaders rise.

Together, we can create the home our keiki and ʻōpio deserve.
Become a Hero today.

Join Our Hero Initiative!

Why We Share These Stories?

We share these stories so our community can recognize the urgent need to protect Hawaiʻi’s future generations. While the world sees Hawaiʻi as a paradise, those of us who live here know there is a deeper reality — one shaped by intergenerational trauma, family hardship, and keiki who are hurting behind closed doors.

Beneath the beauty of Hawaiʻi Nei are countless children who carry silent pain, whose voices have been overlooked for far too long.

By sharing their stories with compassion and truth, we honor their experiences.
We stand with them.
We speak for them until they feel safe enough to speak for themselves.

Because no child in Hawaiʻi should ever feel alone in their suffering — and together, we can be the generation that changes their story.

Collective Impact

Humanity Hale has witnessed firsthand the heartbreaking realities many Big Island youth face — including physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse within foster homes meant to protect them. One case in particular, involving severe and repeated harm to vulnerable children, became a turning point for us. It made one thing clear:

We can no longer wait for broken systems to change themselves.

For too long, our keiki and ʻōpio have been treated as an afterthought — their safety delayed, their trauma minimized, their healing postponed. We refuse to accept that any longer.

Humanity Hale is stepping forward with courage, compassion, and cultural grounding to create the safe spaces our youth deserve. But we cannot do this alone. Real change requires all of us.

We invite our local and global communities to join this movement — to stand with our youth, amplify their voices, and help build the future they should have always had.

Together, our collective impact can break cycles of trauma and create generations of healing.

Be a Hero

Your $10 monthly commitment is more than a donation — it’s a lifeline.
It helps Humanity Hale secure a transitional healing and retreat center in South Kona that will serve as a group home, cultural hub, and community center for youth who need it most.

This five-acre sanctuary will provide:

🌺 Safe housing for up to 40 children and teens
No keiki should ever remain in an abusive or unstable home simply because there is nowhere else for them to go.

🌺 Cultural and trauma-informed healing
Hawaiian arts, ʻāina-based practices, therapy, mentorship, and life-skills support — all in one place.

🌺 A stable foundation for future generations
A place where hurting youth can rebuild trust, safety, and hope.

Your monthly gift brings us one step closer to opening this home — a place where every child is protected, nurtured, and loved.

The Heart of the Issue

The reality is stark: despite the beauty of Hawaiʻi Nei, our keiki are suffering in plain sight. On the Big Island alone, one report found that food insecurity affects nearly one in three children, with households going without meals entirely. Big Island Video News+1
And nationwide in Hawaiʻi, 45 % of children in foster care are full or part Native Hawaiian — reflecting a deep, systemic imbalance in how trauma and support are distributed. Hawaiʻi Appleseed

For youth in foster care or unstable situations, this means:

  • Housing that fails to serve as home — or worse, environments where abuse and neglect go unchecked.

  • Lack of basic safety, nourishment, and belonging — even though the island is framed as “paradise.”

  • A system that treats children as a line item instead of a human life to be valued, nurtured, and cherished.

We are done with that. We refuse to remain bystanders.

It’s time to build a home where these children are truly valued —not exploited or ignored.
Will you be their Hero?

Join the Movement

Your $10 monthly pledge is more than a donation — it’s a commitment to healing.
By becoming a Hero for change, you help Humanity Hale break the cycles of trauma, abuse, and addiction that have harmed our youth for generations.

Right here on the Big Island, your support creates:

🌺 Healing spaces for keiki in crisis
🌺 Culturally rooted trauma support in our schools
🌺 Art and Hawaiian arts programs that restore identity and belonging
🌺 Safe housing and a future transitional home for youth aging out of foster care

Your monthly gift sends a message to our youth:
“You matter. You are worth fighting for.”

Be the change you wish to see — one heart, one home, one generation at a time.

How to Be a

Hero

Take the pledge today and become part of something bigger — a movement of everyday heroes who are transforming lives, one child at a time.

Your commitment to the $10 Monthly Hero Initiative directly supports Humanity Hale’s Foster Group Home and trauma-informed programs, ensuring our keiki have the safety, love, and healing they deserve.

Because every child needs a hero.
And every hero starts with a single act of aloha.

Pledge

Commit to being a $10 Monthly Hero by signing up for our initiative.

Spread the Word

Share your commitment on social media and inspire your friends and family to join you in making a difference.

Stay Connected

Receive exclusive updates about the ʻŌpio’s progress, stories, and milestones made possible by your unwavering support.

Change Lives

Watch firsthand as your generosity creates a ripple effect of positive change for the keiki and ʻŌpio under our care.