Aloha ‘Āina Health and Learning Center and the Luluku Farmers’ Association help to build healthy communities through holistic nutrition and healthy lifestyle programs. Aloha ‘Āina Health Center seeks to accomplish its mission by fostering community participation in traditional Hawaiian sustainable farming, preparing traditional Hawaiian foods, learning and teaching the healing power of a traditional Hawaiian diet with an emphasis on community food security for the health and welfare of Hawaii’s current and future generations.

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The program occurs in Luluku and in Maunawili. The Luluku lands are the lands where Luluku farmers resided for generations for the construction of the H-3 resulted in the eviction of this community. In 1987, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs signed the Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement (1987 MOA) that allowed the H-3 project to proceed.

 

Out of the 1987 MOA,the Hālawa-Luluku Interpretive Development Project (HLID) was created between the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation to mitigate some of the adverse impacts resulting from the construction of the Interstate H-3 Highway. OHA, under HLID, created an Interpretive Development Plan (IDP) to plan for mitigation to be led by stewards in Luluku and Halawa. In 2019, ‘Āina Momona was invited by the area descendants to help advance community-led programming in Luluku. They led the drafting of the Luluku Stewardship Management Plan and serve as kāko‘o to the cultural practitioners and farmers in Luluku. 

To learn more about the Luluku stewards and join them as they restore and farm their sacred lands again, please watch the video or visit the links below: