KBG February Luncheon - Featuring Kevin Chang

Kevin Chang is the Executive Director of Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo a capacity building and network facilitation mechanism for rural and Native Hawaiian community driven natural-cultural resource management initiatives. Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo (KUA) means “grassroots growing through shared kuleana (responsibility)” the acronym KUA means backbone. KUA was called into creation in 2011 by a statewide network of grassroots rural and Native Hawaiian community mālama ʻāina groups called E Alu Pū (“move forward together”). Today KUA supports three mālama ʻāina (to care for that which feeds) networks - E Alu Pῡ, Hui Mālama Loko Iʻa and the Limu Hui- that today touch on approximately 70 regions across the state. KUA is an inaugural IUCN Indigenous People Organization. Kevin and the KUA team are building a “backbone organization” that supports community-based solutions to problems stemming from environmental degradation in Hawai’i. KUA works with its network and community members, government agencies and civil society towards restoring the traditional role of Hawai’i communities as caretakers of their lands and waters.

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Good Samaritan Society - Pohai Nani, 45-090 Namoku Street, Kaneohe, United States

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