Opportunities From: HandsOn Maui

Join us on the first Saturday of each month from 9-12 for our monthly Community Work Days in Kula. We’ll spend the morning supporting a Kula community member affected by the Maui fires, with hands-on work that helps the land and the people who care for it recover.

Activities may include removing invasive plants that have emerged since the fires and/or spreading wood chips in burn zones to support soil health and erosion control. This is a meaningful way to start your weekend by connecting with neighbors, caring for the land, and contributing to ongoing recovery efforts in our community.  No experience needed, just a willingness to help and a positive attitude!

What to Bring: Water, Sun protection, closed-toe shoes, long sleeves, long pants. 

What we Provide: gloves, tools. 

Disaster Action Team (DAT) Duty Officers are the behind-the-scenes heroes who coordinate local emergency responses in real time. From the comfort of your home, you’ll ensure that people affected by disasters receive the care and support they need by dispatching volunteers to the scene.

If you are comfortable talking on the phone with new people, learning new computer applications, and can keep folks organized this is the perfect role for you! 

In this role, you'll receive calls from first-responders that are on scene at small-scale local disasters, like home fires. You'll collect the information about the event, how many people/pets need assistance and how bad the damage is. Then, you'll call the Disaster Action Team members that are on-call and respond in-person to provide assistance.

This position is great for those that enjoy educating others and public speaking. Former teachers, coaches, education students, pastors, group leaders, etc. In your role, you will learn our Community Education Presentations for the programs below, and teach members of the public how to prepare.

Presentations are scheduled in the community based on their needs, but are scheduled in advance. They generally take 1-2hrs, and you'll have a team member with you so you're not alone. 

Every day, seven people die in home fires, most often in homes without working smoke alarms. That’s why the American Red Cross launched our Home Fire Campaign in 2014 to save lives.

Through our home visits, we’ve installed more than 2.2 million free smoke alarms and prepared more than 2.5 million people for home fires.

You can join the American Red Cross today as a volunteer installing fire alarms in the homes of those that need them most in our communities across the island.

This opportunity is great for teams of 2-4 people. Someone will be the documenter, the safety educator, the installer and the assistant. You'll install smoke alarms in the home, help the renter or owner to draw up an evacuation plan, practice a 2-minute escape drill and perform a safety check to ensure there are no obvious fire hazards in the home.

When disaster strikes your community, Disaster Action Team (DAT) volunteers are the first to respond—bringing comfort, care, and critical resources like food and shelter to those in need. Join this vital team by signing up for on-call shifts and helping ensure 24-hour emergency support is always just a phone call away for your neighbors.

Hear firsthand why others have volunteered in this role. Training is free and the experience is priceless. 

Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge is known for its native Hawaiian Stilt and Coot nesting habitat. But there are areas of the refuge unseen by the public eye that are being restored to a Hawaiian dryland forest ecosystem, one of the most rare systems in the world. Our objective is to plant species that were once found in this area and to replace the previously establish, and invasive, Kiawe forests. The area was previously burned in 2019 by a brush fire that tore across the valley towards Kihei, narrowly missing our visitor center. The fire was a blessing in disguise as it gave us the opportunity to remove the Kiawe, replant native species, and reintroduce an almost extinct ecosystem. Working conditions are in hot and buggy areas of the Refuge with minimal shade. Come join us in this unique opportunity! 

Important Gear:

The area is slightly rugged as we are required to walk over mulched Kiawe. The fields of this mulch often times still have the long thorns of the Kiawe tree still in them and can cause harm if not properly equipped.

There are many disabled fire survivors that are moving back to Lahaina or moving to another living situation after being displaced for over a year. Some of them don't have the ability to carry, pack or even move their personal belongings.  We are looking for strong, compassionate full of Aloha individuals to kokua with physical labor and transporting the belongings to their new homes.

Volunteer Overview:

Come volunteer at the Pacific Birth Collective as a Donation Delivery Driver.  Our donation center and orders are filled at the Aloha 'Aina center in Haiku.  From here, we text our Whatsapp Volunteer group (see QR code below) to schedule a driver to deliver the orders directly to fire impacted families around the island.

We only ask you deliver orders to locations that are convenient for you and when it works for your schedule. But we would love to add you to the list of our current volunteer drivers, so you can be notified when orders need to be delivered.

How our process works:

1. Families fill out a form requesting needed items

2. Our volunteers fill the orders at our donation center

3. Delivery drivers (you), deliver the order to the family. 

How to become a driver:

Hours of Operation:

Address:

Aloha 'Aina Center: 810 Kokomo Rd, Suite 170, Haiku

There are a lot of opportunities at Nā Keiki O Emalia. Become a group facilitator for in-person peer support groups to provide grieving children, teens and families a safe space to open up, share, and support one another through grief. We provide training. No previous experience required.

Participate in fun activities, art projects, story sharing and grief education. Parents meet in a separate small group. There are groups forming throughout Maui county including Hana, Lahaina, Upcountry, Lana’i and Moloka’i in schools and community centers as well as drop-ins at our Cameron Center location in Wailuku.  Join our group of compassionate volunteers.

More info on Nā Keiki O Emalia

Maui Civil Air Patrol is looking for new members who are interested in helping our county in search and rescue, emergency services, communications, aerospace education, Air Force Missions, and more!

Search and Rescue

We are tasked with the search and rescue of lost aviators and sailors through our training and ability to find emergency locator devices.  We provide the training for pilots, observers, air teams, communications teams and ground teams to make us an effective force multiplier in search and rescue operations.

Emergency Services

We are on called upon to help during major disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, and fires.  We train air crews and photographers to help our partners including MEMA, HIEMA, and FEMA with aerial photography for disaster assessment.  In addition, we are on call for Tsunami warnings to reach our goal of having an airplane in the air within 2 hours of an alert to warn people off of the coastal areas of Maui.

Communications

We are in need volunteers to help operate and maintain our vital communications links including VHF local radio communications, and HF Long-Distance communications in case of catastrophe.

Aerospace Education

We are looking for educators and Aerospace Education enthusiasts to spread Aerospace Education throughout our community and schools.  We have special programs for educators including free STEM kits and TOP orientation flights for teachers to bring back the joy of aviation to their schools.  Civil Air Patrol receives funding from Congress and the Air Force to develop Aerospace Education and STEM programs for students K-12.

Air Force Missions

For pilots and air crew, we also are involved in Air Force missions to help in fighter pilot interdiction training and other important Air Force roles.

If you're interested in Helping your community, aviation, aerospace education, or would like to learn and advance yourself through the great training we provide in over a dozen different disciplines, please think about joining civil air patrol.

You can find more information here:

https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/join/active-adult-in-cap

You can contact us by emailing our Squadron Commander

ngdarrylcap@gmail.com

We are currently having meetings online via zoom on Tuesday nights at 8pm.