2021 in review: A look back at the events and images from another year marked by the coronavirus pandemic

by Mari Ebersole | Jan 5, 2022 | Affordable Housing, Blog, COVID-19, In the News, Kūpuna, Puna, Sacred Heart Shelter

View Content Direct from Source 01/05/2022  BY HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD Compiled by Anna WeaverHawaii Catholic Herald Here is a month-by-month review of the Catholic news in Hawaii in 2021 as reported in the Hawaii Catholic Herald. January A Jan. 8 memo from the Diocese...

Food & Diaper Drive this Saturday

by Mari Ebersole | Sep 29, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, Families, In the News

View Content Direct from Source By JASON WALTER Special to the Tribune-Herald | Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 12:05 a.m Tribune-Herald file photo Each purchase of Waiakea Hawaiian Volcanic Water – pictured at a Hilo store in this 2015 file photo – helps fund...

Nonprofits, County Partner to Create Changes to Emergency Rental Assistance Program

by Mari Ebersole | Sep 24, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, In the News

View Content Direct from Source By Big Island Now | September 24, 2021, 3:01 PM HST   Seven local nonprofit organizations are collaborating with the county to create changes to the Hawaiʻi County Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) in an effort to provide a...

Organizations work together to get homeless vaccinated

by Kristen Alice | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, In the News, Street Medicine

View Content Direct from Source   Organizations work together to get homeless vaccinated By STEPHANIE SALMONS Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Monday, August 30, 2021, 12:05 a.m. Kelsey Walling/Tribune-Herald A dog lies next to personal possessions underneath a tarp off...

Organizations work together to get shots, tests to homeless

by Mari Ebersole | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, In the News, Outreach, Street Medicine

View Content Direct from Source By STEPHANIE SALMONS Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Sunday, April 18, 2021, 12:05 a.m.   Kelsey Walling/Tribune-Herald A dog is seen next to personal possessions underneath a tarp off Kamehameha Avenue in Hilo on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021....

Talk story: ‘Your kupuna shall dream dreams’

by Mari Ebersole | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, In the News, Kūpuna

View Content Direct from Source 08/04/2021 BY HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD Senior food box sorting at St. John the Baptist’s parish hall in Nov. 2019. (HCH Photo: Anna Weaver) OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY  “I want to tell you that you are needed in order to help build, in...