Programs
Aukukui
The Aukukui Professional Development program in partnership with the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo’s Hawaiian Language College, Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlani, provides staff with training and professional development opportunities. Aukukui also offers self-directed online Hawaiian language courses for all ages.
About Us
E Ola Ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
The Hawaiian Language Shall Live
In 1983, ʻAha Pūnana Leo was created as a grassroots effort with the sole purpose of reviving ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. Now, ʻAha Pūnana Leo serves as a local, national and international model for language revitalization. Over the past several decades, ʻAha Pūnana Leo established and built numerous programs throughout the islands, helped to lift a 90-year ban on teaching Hawaiian in public and private schools, advocated for other indigenous people and raised awareness about the consequences of the loss of indigenous languages.
Resources
Mai Ka Pūnana Mai is a podcast to help support Pūnana Leo families who desire to make Hawaiian their primary language of communication.
The purpose of Hui Kīpaepae is to assist families in gaining knowledge and support for one another to create and reinforce a continuum between the home and the Pūnana Leo.
Our mauli or life force, like a well tended fire, can burn brightly. If not, like a neglected fire, it can die out.
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