Our Mission
“Kahu a mālama ʻo Lamalama ka Ulu Kikowaena Hoʻōla i ke ola kino, naʻau, a i ka mauli o ke kaiāulu a me ka ʻāina ma o ka hana lāʻau lapaʻau kuʻuna.”
To support the emotional, physical and spiritual health of our
community and ʻāina, through traditional healing and education.
Our Vision
"E ulu i ka lamalama." A e kākoʻo i ka lāhui kānaka o nā pae like ʻole e hoʻoikaika i ke ola kino, mai nā keiki hānau a i nā kūpuna.
“To glow in growth”. Our goal is to assist our lāhui kanaka to regain a vibrant state of healthin any and all phases of the life cycle from birth to kūpuna.
Lamalama Ka Ulu is a Native Hawaiian women-led nonprofit founded in 2021 to carry forward
generations of community healing, cultural education, and land-based service.
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We steward 5.5 acres of ancestral land returned through community care, ceremony, and trust. A living example of land return in action.
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We serve across Hawai'i through lomilomi (traditional bodywork), lā'au Lapa'au (plant medicine), free food distribution, education, and ceremony.
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Guided by ancestral practice, prayer , advisory boards, and accountability to the communities we love.
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Built on nearly two decades of training under respected teachers and practitioner in Hawaiian healing and land stewardship
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From this foundation, we are ready to expand the circle of healing to ensure more land and resources flow ba into community stewardship.
Empowering the strength of our people
Native Hawaiians have a higher rate of death in comparison to all other ethnicities in Hawaiʻi. Hawaiians have a 68% higher rate of Heart disease, 34% higher rate of Cancer, 20% higher rate of Stroke, and 13% higher rate for Diabetes. These statistics are compared to the population of the state of Hawaiʻi. Areas where there is a greater number of Native Hawaiians like Waiʻanae Oʻahu, Puna and South Kohala on Hawaii island have the next highest rates for Cardio Metabolic Disorders and Diabetes.
But even now, as we acknowledge and seek to heal our inter-generational traumas, we must also recognize how deeply embedded our intergenerational strengths are in our people. Lamalama Ka Ulu will give voice and healing to those strengths and empower our people to no longer identify with the statistics and illnesses that seek to make them into numbers and reclaim their personal health, the health of their 'ohana and of all the communities in Hawaiʻi.