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A Community-Led Turning Point

Huliau means a turning point.

Huliau o Waiʻanae is a community-led initiative focused on strengthening environmental health, protecting public health, and building Native Hawaiian leadership in Waiʻanae.

While water is part of the conversation, Huliau addresses the deeper connection between land, infrastructure, pollution, health outcomes, and decision-making power. Through the Kānaka ʻŌiwi Advisory Hui, community health assessments, and environmental monitoring, residents transform lived experience into data, leadership, and policy action.

Huliau ensures that environmental conditions are understood as human health realities and that community voices are centered in shaping long-term solutions.

KĀNAKA 'ŌIWI ADVISORY

The Kānaka ʻŌiwi Advisory Hui (KOA Hui) is a leadership initiative within Huliau o Waiʻanae, designed to strengthen community capacity at the intersection of environmental health, policy, and cultural stewardship. Through environmental literacy, Government 101, leadership development, and advocacy training, participants build the tools needed to engage in decisions impacting land, water, and public health.

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OUR WHY

Why Huliau Exists?

Waiʻanae families experience environmental challenges that impact daily life from wastewater concerns and coastal conditions to air quality, land use, and exposure risks. These are not isolated environmental issues; they are public health realities.

Huliau ensures that community knowledge, lived experience, and cultural insight inform the policies and systems that shape those realities.

What Huliau Does?

Huliau strengthens the connection between environment, health, and leadership by building community leadership through the Kānaka ʻŌiwi Advisory Hui, conducting health and environmental assessments, documenting lived experiences, and translating community findings into policy engagement and advocacy. This work centers families, youth, and kūpuna not just as participants, but as leaders shaping environmental and public health solutions.

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1 in 4 Residents

Resident Survey Responses
Documenting environmental and health realities in 96792 area through the Waiʻanae Community Health Assessment.

1 in 4 Residents

23.6% Report Air Pollution Has Harmed Their Health, With an additional 16–19% unsure, revealing widespread concern and uncertainty about environmental exposure.

1 in 6 Residents

1 in 4 Residents

1 in 6 Residents

16.4% Report Water Pollution Has Harmed Their Health, reinforcing the clear link community members make between environmental conditions and their physical well-being.

1 Advisory Hui

Community Workshops Held

1 in 6 Residents

6 Community Leaders Trained
The Kānaka ʻŌiwi Advisory Hui established and participants trained, strengthening Native Hawaiian leadership in environmental and public health advocacy.

Community Workshops Held

3 Conversation Mapping Sessions
Community workshops and conversation mapping sessions held to identify wastewater barriers, infrastructure challenges, and exposure concerns.

4 Reports Shared

Community Workshops Held

Reports compiled and shared with agencies and policymakers, ensuring decisions reflect lived experience not assumptions. Turning lived experience into actionable data.

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HULIAU O WAI'ANAE

A Community-Led Turning Point

Huliau means a turning point.

KĀNAKA 'ŌIWI ADVISORY

OUR WHY

Why Huliau Exists?

What Huliau Does?

IMPACT IN ACTION

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1 in 4 Residents

1 in 4 Residents

1 in 4 Residents

1 in 4 Residents

1 in 4 Residents

1 in 6 Residents

1 in 4 Residents

1 in 6 Residents

1 Advisory Hui

Community Workshops Held

1 in 6 Residents

Community Workshops Held

Community Workshops Held

Community Workshops Held

4 Reports Shared

Community Workshops Held

Community Workshops Held

"This is our Turning Point."