Welcome to Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke Building Program … We’re a hands-on learning program that substitutes textbooks and classroom work with tools and job experience. The best way to learn about us is through our pictures and stories—look below for our latest projects, and check out our short videos!
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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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Click to play a short video of Hana youth helping their community, while learning to build solar hot-water bathhouses, cottages, and safety improvements …
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Students are now working on a double kupuna (elder) cottage for two sisters who are house-bound and living with extended family. The new cottage will give these deserving kupuna a space of their own, while surrounded by the love and care of their ʻohana (family).
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Our graduate apprentices returned to Molokaʻi last month to help nonprofit Ka Honua Momona finish building projects at their fishponds restoration site. Working alongside Molokaʻi builders, our grads were able to share their own expertise and put their leadership skills to practice outside of East Maui.
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When the office of local nonprofit Alu Like showed signs of falling apart, creating hazardous working conditions for the staff, our students came in to do a floor-to-ceiling remodel …
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This winter, mentors have come into the program to generously share their time teaching our kids how to use hand-planers, and how to create incredible stained glass mosaics …
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Students responded to the emergency need of a local auntie, who needed a handicap-access means of bathing herself after a stroke made it impossible for her to access her shower. She now has a wheelchair-accessible shower, complete with beautiful tile mosaics, created alongside the cottage our kids built for her several years ago.
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In January, our youth answered the call of Hana’s Family Resource Center, ʻOhana Makamae, when they requested a handicap ramp to help clients better access their facilities. Our kids also recently retrofitted two local houses with grab bars and handicap-access toilets, to help prevent falls and injury. And they built a ramp for a local [...]
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Our students put the finishing touches on the rebuild of a local home that had recently burned down, including a solar-heated shower and full kitchen … the family is now moved in!
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Our youth were able to work with a licensed solar installer, to create a large 7-kilowatt grid inter-tie system for a Hana kupuna (elder). The family required this level of system to offset their high electrical bill caused by the elder being on a respirator 24/7. The project allowed our kids to learn about large [...]
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This sailing canoe mosaic was student-created out of donated tile—it’s now installed in a student-built bathhouse at a local kupuna (elder) home, which will soon house a solar hot-water system.
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