Supporting Our High School Scholars

Each year Hale Makua residents make lei out of yarn or fabric for the Hawaii Community Foundation. The Foundation helps many people on Maui and one way they do that is offering scholarships for college students. The lei made by our residents are given to scholarship recipients at a ceremony honoring their achievements.

In the photo Joyce Falconer winds yarn for a lei. The work that residents do every year making lei illustrates the Eden Alternative Principles 4 “An Elder-centered community creates opportunity to give as well as receive care. This is the antidote to helplessness.” and 6 “Meaningless activity corrodes the human spirit. The opportunity to do things that we find meaningful is essential to human health.”