Today, the women of AILH celebrate International Women's Day, originally called International Working Women's Day, to commemorate the movement for women's rights. International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The … [Read more...]
Hilo Support Groups Receive Household Goodie Bags
March 9, 2017
Grateful AILH Hilo support group members received household goodie bags from the donations left by former AILH Consumer, Ralph Toomire. … [Read more...]
AILH on Instagram
March 8, 2017
Exciting News...AILH is now on Instagram! Search for us at Aloha IL Hawaii and follow us! … [Read more...]
AILH Maui Staff Dabble in ASL
March 7, 2017
The Comprehensive Service Center (CSC) for people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Deaf-Blind, offered a one-day ASL training at the University of Hawaii Maui College and our AILH Maui staff took advantage of this great opportunity. IL Specialists, Lani Cabanilla and Kathleen Kenney joined about … [Read more...]
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
March 4, 2017
The generous donation of possessions left by former AILH Consumer, Ralph Toomire, appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. Current AILH consumer, Kauila Haumea (pictured, second from left), recently received a neck massager, a sleeping bag, an FM transmitter and some other useful items that he … [Read more...]
Savers Drive Yields Thousands of Pounds
March 3, 2017
AILH Oahu recently partnered with Savers, a global thrift organization, to help our Oahu friends and families clean out their closets. We collected used clothes and household items and participated in Savers’ FUNDrive community collection program which pays non-profit organizations for every pound … [Read more...]
Sam Nagasawa Celebrates 6-year Anniversary
March 1, 2017
February marks the 6th-year service anniversary of IL Program Director, Sam Nagasawa. Not only does she manage the supervision of our 8 IL Specialists on 5 different islands, but she also serves as Roxanne's right hand in making sure that all reports are submitted on-time, consumer files are … [Read more...]
Social Work Students from Japan Visit Hale Kuhao
February 24, 2017
AILH hosted 20 Social Work students from Japan on February 22 at Hale Kuhao on Oahu. The students are here with the Sharing ALOHA: Social Work in Hawaii Seminar XIV which is sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work and the Na Lei Aloha … [Read more...]
Island Skills Gathering Shares Low Vision Aids
February 22, 2017
Wally Soares, of Island Skills Gathering recently reached out to AILH and generously donated a valuable assortment of products & samples to share with our newly established, Vision Impairment Support Group on Maui. Useful low vision aids such as signature guides, 20/20 pens, a talking food … [Read more...]
Olelo Segment Features AILH’s Kathleen Kenney
February 10, 2017
This month, Executive Director of AILH and Host of Olelo’s Giving Aloha, Roxanne Bolden, welcomed special guest, Kathleen Kenney, Maui IL Specialist and former Mobility Trainer. Kathleen shared some basic etiquette on how to appropriately interact with people who are blind or visually impaired. … [Read more...]
