The vision of Ku‘ialuaopuna is to establish a center to support indigenous fighting arts, customs, traditions and history. Our Mission is to promote and preserve cultural and traditional knowledge through the practice of our indigenous cultural arts.

Your support is essential to the continuation of indigenous fighting arts and essential to the development of our next generation of leaders. Ku‘ialuaopuna offers years of expertise, an inspired curriculum, and a welcoming community where traditional knowledge is at the core of sustaining indigenous identity, culture, language, and art. The transmission of traditional knowledge from one generation to the next must be encouraged, preserved and protected, and your support will ensure the preservation and continuation of traditions. 

You can support Ku‘ialuaopuna achieve the following short and long term organizational goals:

• Maintain the continuation of the Lua, an indigenous Hawaiian fighting arts and practice.

• Create traditional learning spaces for youth of Puna through hands-on learning classes of ‘āina (land or environment), and Hawaiian indigenous cultural practices.

• Build a facility in Puna with proper infrastructure for all community organizations to utilize for cultural practices.

• Build a repository of traditional knowledge for the people of Hawai‘i and of Polynesia cultures.

• Help alleviate associated travel expenses for exchanges of traditional practices and knowledge with our ‘ohana across the Pacific ocean

• Future development of a united Pacific organization where indigenous people of Polynesia build and sustain relationships and convene for bi-annual gatherings to exchange indigenous culture, practices, and knowledge

Your support to our fiscal sponsor, Nā Maka Hāloa, is an investment in our keiki and in the future collaborations of Ku‘ialuaopuna with our families throughout the Pacific. Your small donation, is a huge an investment in the perpetuation of over a thousand years of knowledge.

Gifts of any size, shape, or form are welcome and greatly appreciated as we work to grow Ku‘ialuaopuna's programs and initiatives. Feel free to Contact Us for more information on the different ways in which you can contribute to this movement. 

Ku‘ialuaopuna works in conjunction with our fiscal sponsor, Nā Maka Hāloa, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Your donations will be fully tax deductible. Mahalo nui for your support and contribution!

Nā Maka Hāloa 

PO BOX 10664

Hilo HI 96721-5664

Phone: 1-808 937-0823

EIN: 91-2079670