HIOHIA
EIN 45-0844549 · Cultural & Ethnic Awareness (A23)
What they do
HIOHIA is A HAWAII NONPROFIT CORPORATION THAT SEEKS to RECOVER TRADITIONAL NATIVE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE STORIES FROM HAWAIIS RICH HISTORY and THEN PRINT and PUBLISH THEM for USE IN HOMES and IN HAWAIIAN IMMERSION SCHOOLS, and to MAKE THEM AVAILABLE to HISTORIANS and THE WORLD AS WELL. HIOHIAS EFFORTS ARE ACCOMPLISHING TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES: 1. THE PRESERVATION of CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT NATIVE HAWAIIAN STORIES and 2. THE RECOVERY and PERPETUATION of THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. REVENUES ARE GENERATED THROUGH PUBLIC DONATIONS and THROUGH SALES of THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MATERIALS THAT THE COMPANY PRODUCES. THESE REVENUES ARE USED to RESEARCH and RECOVER ADDITIONAL NATIVE HAWAIIAN STORIES to PREPARE for THE FUTURE PUBLICATION.
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About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2021
- Location
- 84-483 NUKEA ST, WAIANAE, HI 96792-1871
- County
- Honolulu
- In care of
- KAIULANI KAUIHOU