Welcome to Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke, the Building Program at Hana High School … We’re a hands-on learning program that substitutes textbooks and classroom work with tools and job experience. The best way to learn about what we do is through our pictures and stories—look below for our latest projects, and check out our [...]
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Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke is a building program for high school students in the remote island community of Hana, Maui. The kids learn building skills and then create handicap-access ramps, community centers, and small homes for kupuna (elders).
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Watch as Hana High students help their community by building handicap-access ramps, safety improvements, and cottages for their kupuna (elders) …
a Karalyn Henderson film, used with permission
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Building program students and Kahanu Garden staff have been clearing the first 2 acres of Mahele Farm …
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As an extension of our sustainable building training and kupuna garden projects, we’re introducing a Sustainable Agriculture program to Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke in 2010 …
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Many of our former students want to keep building and learning with us, so we created a new Graduate Apprenticeship Program …
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To get our community stoked on their solar system installations (see Leveraging Federal Stimulus Monies), we asked what supporting structure would help them the most.
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Building Program students are helping leverage federal stimulus monies through a project managed by Maui Economic Opportunity.
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We want to again say mahalo to the Social Media Club Hawaiʻi—without them, you wouldn’t be treated to this wonderful site! They’ve taught us so much more than we’ve even begun to apply . . .
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Talented filmmaker (and former program student!) Kara Henderson and Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke won a national award from Profiles in Caring—a 4-time Emmy-award winning television show broadcast on over 100 stations in the U.S. and globally.
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Hawaiʻi Governor Linda Lingle recently announced that Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke has been honored by a “Governor’s Innovation Award” from the State for the month of January.
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