Plastic Free Hawaiʻi School Mural Contest | Cast Your Vote!

Mahalo to the students that participated in the 2023 Plastic Free Hawaiʻi School Mural Contest! K-12 students were encouraged to utilize marine debris, plastic material, and other single-use items collected from cleanups or waste recovery drives to create artwork - and give these items a…

Are you a Member?

Are you a Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation Member? We encourage you to join our growing ʻohana of paid members who make an annual contribution to the foundation. Our members show continuous support of environmental education in our schools and communities. We offer four different membership tiers…

Kōkua General Store March Upcoming Events

The Kōkua General Store is excited to host some exciting events for the month of March. Come visit us as we continue to provide resources, events and products that help you reduce waste:

Saturday, March 4, 10am-3pm - Our resident beekeeper and founder of Hānai Hives, Katie Metzger will…

Kōkua Learning Farm Workdays

We had our first rained out workday of the year, canceling our February Community Workday. We apologize to all those who had registered and hope you are able to make it to another Community Workday in the future. Heavy rains, however, did not stop the North Shore Dance Academy Dance Team from…

Kōkua Learning Farm Spring Internship Highlight

Our Spring 2023 Youth Internship is off to a great start! As a collective, the youth have begun to plan out their farm plots by weeding, adding amendments to enrich the soil quality, sowing a variety of seeds, as well as harvesting and creating their own farm fresh juices! 

The cohort had…

ʻĀINA In Schools | Spring ʻĀINA Updates & Upcoming Educator Trainings

‘ĀINA In Schools spring gardens, nutrition, and waste reduction lessons are well on their way. Students are planting lettuce, carrots, and bush beans in the Tops and Bottoms Garden as they learn about different parts of the plant. Lettuce, radish, carrots, bush beans, marigolds, nasturtium, and…

Kōkua Learning Farm Field Trips

Waipahu Intermediate students participating in Future Farmers of America and Leadership Club were our first field trip of 2023! Students dove into learning about the agroforestry orchard, kalo library, and vermicompost systems. Highlights of the day included harvesting kalo and radishes,...

3Rs School Recycling Drives

3Rs School Recycling Drives

Upcoming Drives for the Month of March

Saturday, March 4th, 9-11am - Wahiawa Elementary School

Saturday, March 25th, 9-11am - Kaiser High School 

At the 3Rs School Recycling Drives, our team of 6 recycling partners work alongside school faculty, staff and…