Our Kūpuna

Our Kūpuna’s mission is to connect Hawai’i’s kūpuna (seniors) with volunteers, resources, and essentials to ensure food security, community connection, and safe home aging. We connect low-income homebound kūpuna with volunteers who can shop and deliver groceries, medication and other necessary supplies. We also match kūpuna with social phone talk story buddies or high school pen pals.

There are low-income, homebound kūpuna who are struggling to get their essentials themselves, and not all elderly in Hawai’i have ’ohana on island to look out for them. Our mission is to connect our kūpuna with volunteer delivery sponsors—those in our community who follow current Hawaiʻi mandates regarding coronavirus safety, and are willing to pick up and deliver groceries, medication, and necessary supplies.

While we started assisting kūpuna who needed to stay home to stay safe from the COVID-19 coronavirus, we have discovered that many kūpuna struggle to access their essentials (groceries, medication, household supplies) on their own regardless of the pandemic or vaccination status. We are committed to serving these individuals, and our wonderful volunteers are too!  We pair each kūpuna with a volunteer sponsor who picks up and delivers essentials to the kūpuna's home every 2 weeks. We are now require a referral for every kūpuna requesting our assistance, this helps us to ensure appropriate and full care for those in need.

We are helping to make these lasting connections on every island of Hawai'i, and we especially need more volunteers in rural communities and neighboring islands. 

Help us fulfill our mission: to ensure food access and safe in-home aging for Hawaii's kūpuna!