The following sites offer food, water and supplies to people who have been impacted by the Maui wildfires (check on specific locations on the Donation/Distribution Center map on this page for details).

WEST MAUI:

• Kahana Gateway Shopping Center, 4405 Honoapi’ilani Highway, Lahaina: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Walk-up meals are available at lunch and dinner. Volunteers welcome!

CENTRAL MAUI:

• Old Safeway location: 170 E Kamehameha Ave., Kahului, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
  To register to volunteer, click here. For more information, contact Malia Masoe @ Malia@mokainc.org.
  

FEED MY SHEEP MOBILE FOOD DISTRIBUTION SITES:

• Kahului: 150 South Pu’unene Ave., 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Saturday
• Wailuku: Parking lot next to Living Way Church at the corner of Market and Mokuhau streets in Happy Valley, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Friday

MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY:

Continues to offer donated pet supplies and veterinary services at several distribution sites island-wide. Please visit mauihumanesociety.org for more.

In coordination with Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) has opened the Maui Relief Storage Facility, a coordinated donation management center to receive, sort and inventory donations collected for Maui residents impacted by the wildfires and store them until they are ready to be transported and received on Maui as feasible and appropriate.

Located in Hakuone at Kaka‘ako Makai, the Maui Relief Storage Facility is currently set-up to receive donations from coordinated relief efforts/drives across O‘ahu. Businesses, community organizations, churches, schools, etc. who are collecting and receiving large donations should call (808) 341-0622 to coordinate delivery. Once received at the facility, the donations will be sorted, inventoried, and stored until ready to be received on Maui and then transported as feasible and appropriate.

Unfortunately, the center is not able to accept drop-off donations at this time. Individuals wanting to donate much needed goods and supplies are encouraged to find a donation drive for Maui fire relief in their area.

Warehouse Location‍

200 Keawe St., Honolulu, HI 96813

Mon – Fri, 8:30am-4pm

Volunteer at the Kakaʻako Donation Management Center Warehouse

If you would like to help amplify community efforts, please contact us at info@hawaiiancouncil.org

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Mahalo to our distribution center partners: Makana O Ke Akua and Office of Hawaiian Affairs

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Maui Wildfire Disaster Relief: Volunteers are needed in the short term and long term as we recover from the Maui fires. Please sign up to get email updates of urgent and timely volunteer needs.

The County of Maui Volunteer Center is the one resource and catalyst on Maui that leads, connects, and mobilizes volunteers and volunteer agencies to contribute to a better life on Maui. The website, www.handsonmaui.com, is our main ongoing service to the community and is interactive, informative, and educational. Non-profit agencies have the ability to register and use a complete volunteer management system. Residents and visitors are able to search for volunteer opportunities with ease.

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You can also follow-us on Facebook, our Maui Volunteers Facebook page and/or Instagram.

The Department of Health is coordinating efforts for healthcare providers to support the West Maui Community. If you are a health care provider (MD, PA, APRN, NP, RN or Behavioral Health Practitioner) interested in helping, please complete the online form. Your information will be recorded and healthcare volunteer coordination staff will reach out to you if there is a potential need.

The outpouring of support and Aloha from the healthcare community has been phenomenal. If you have submitted your information and have not heard from us, please know that we deeply value your willingness to step forward in support of the Maui community and we may still reach out in the future.

Please fill out the form at the bottom of the State of Hawaii, Department of Health Maui Wildfire Response page here.

Since August 15, All Hands and Hearts (AHaH) has supported volunteer coordination with the Hawaii Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (Hawaii VOAD), matching volunteers with established organizations on Maui. All Hands and Hearts first provided remote support, coordinating volunteers for local organizations – ensuring vital housing and resources were available for evacuees and internally displaced persons in the aftermath of the wildfires. Due to the dedicated efforts of their Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and volunteer coordination team, All Hands and Hearts has become one of the lead resources for volunteer coordination and engagement on Maui. We are continually expanding our scope beyond Hawaii VOAD’s initial ask and showing that volunteer-powered disaster work can work alongside government entities. With a proven track record of successful volunteer coordination, we are building long-term relationships with council members across Maui County and have connected 304 volunteers with various collaboratives, hubs and partners around the island.

Our team has been working closely with the Napili Noho Community Hub, which supports over 100 families a day and aims to provide long-term support for the communities recovering from the wildfires over the next two years. Thus far, over 280 people have volunteered their time at this hub alone, helping sort and distribute supplies, running the markets and providing general support for the community.

In addition to the Napili Noho Community Hub, DART has connected with other Maui County hubs to review various scopes of work including reforestation, green waste removal and distribution, and is working to support the long term sustainability of these hubs. By facilitating and coordinating volunteers, AHAH is able to support these hubs that are essential to the local communities.

Please fill out this form if you're interested in being paired with an organization to volunteer, and are already in Hawaii.
This form will help us match you to an organization that best fits your skillset, interest and availability.

Common Ground Collective (CGC) is connecting fresh produce with those that are positioned to feed our impacted community members. We are currently seeking volunteers with Food Handlers Permits, as well as general volunteer help.

If any local farms require assistance salvaging their produce, CGC is here to support.

We extend an invitation to anyone willing to join our efforts. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

Together, we can make a difference and pave the way for recovery.

CGCʻs Maui Fire Relief volunteer form

Please help our communities recover from the devistation caused by the August 2023 Wildfires.

Click here to be taken to donate directly to the Hawaii VOAD. Cash is best.

Cash offers Hawaii VOAD the most flexibility in obtaining the most-needed resources. Organizations typically prefer cash donations because they allow our members to:

• Purchase food, water, medicine, and equipment from secure and familiar supply chains
• Buy materials locally. This can help rebuild the local economy
• Conserve resources. Money is always necessary and cheap to send, but the cost to ship material supplies can be expensive.
• Remember, material supplies such as used clothing, miscellaneous household items, and mixed or perishable food require helping agencies to redirect volunteer labor away from providing direct one-on-one assistance to sort, package, transport, warehouse, and distribute items that may not meet the needs of disaster survivors.

The Maui Food Bank provides safe and nutritious food to anyone in Maui County who is at risk of going hungry. Maui Food Bank has food distribution locations across the island.

With every $1 donated, the Maui Food Bank can provide 4 meals to the hungry living in our island community. Give now and together we can make a difference.

Download Food Distribution List

View Interactive Food Distribution Map

Our efforts are intended to help connect families with the many resources we have specific to displaced mothers, babies, and families with young children.

This form is through Pacific Birth Collective. Our efforts are intended to help connect families with the many resources we have specific to displaced mothers, babies, and families with young children.

Volunteer Form (Pacific Birth Collective)

This form is through Pacific Birth Collective. Our efforts are intended to help connect families with the many resources we have specific to displaced mothers, babies, and families with young children. If you are a birth worker or provide pre- and postnatal care, please provide your contact info and availability below.

Birth Workers/Care Providers Volunteer Form

To offer support for families impacted by the Maui Wildfires, please consider donating to Pacific Birth Collective here.

The Salvation Armyʻs Hawaii Wildfires Hotline: (808)-440-1811

As Hawaii Wildfires impact our communities, The Salvation Army is providing food and resources for evacuees. The Salvation Army is responding to the wildfires by starting mass feedings for thousands of evacuees at Maui County/American Red Cross shelter.

To help provide disaster relief for those impacted by the Hawaii wildfires, please visit https://bit.ly/3YrSC38.

Volunteers are welcome at Upcountry Strong! Please fill out the  contact form and one of our team members will reach out to you soon.

Please fill out this form if you have an OFFER of housing: Upcountry Strong Housing OFFERS 

Upcountry Strong is seeking housing for people displaced by the fires in Upcountry Housing.We will not list this information publicly.  We will make it available to volunteers who are helping connect people with potential housing situations. We also have a Google Voice number available if you DO want to talk to a human who will help you.

This is in partnership with AIA Maui and Kokku, Inc.  

For up to date information on volunteer opportunities, donation requests, and how to request help, please go to our Upcountry Strong Facebook Page or our Instagram @upcountrystrong

Help out where it’s needed the most. Join Maui Rapid Response in making a meaningful difference in our community.

SIGN UP FOR A VOLUNTEER SHIFT

As a volunteer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring Maui can recover. We are committed to making a lasting impact, and we need your help to achieve this.

To sign up for a shift, simply sign up for a slot at one of the opportunities currently available at the link below. This helps us stay organized and easily get you signed up for shifts. Continuity is key for building relationships, and staying grounded in our community. We’d love if you could sign up for the same shift more than once and get to know the task and people around it.

Maui Rapid Response Volunteer Hubs:

West Side Support
‍Donations hub: Upcountry
‍Donations hub: Buzz's Wharf x Aloha Response Team

HAVE A UNIQUE SKILL TO CONTRIBUTE? LET US KNOW

Please fill out our Google Form and select “I Am Offering Help” if you haven’t already done so. This way, we can contact you for using your unique skills for specific deployments that come up. Mahalo nui for your continued support and flexibility as we move and grow to meet our community’s needs.

OFFER SPECIALIZED SUPPORT

Maui Rapid Response is an ahupuaʻa based disaster response team made up of individuals from the Maui community and a number of nonprofit and direct-aid organizations. Founded in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 shut down, Maui Rapid Response is a decentralized citizen collective driven entirely by community values and needs, with a commitment to prioritizing support for native Hawaiians and vulnerable members of our local community. All funds raised in our Maui Mutual Aid Fund and any other fundraising efforts are administered by nonprofit fiscal sponsor Grants Central Station, a 501(c)(3) organization.

Maui Mental Health Response

Thank you for offering your support during this challenging time.

The Hawaiʻi Psychological Association (HPA) is coordinating contacts for mental health providers available to offer services. The Red Cross is responsible for vetting potential volunteers for emergency responses. Completing this form is not a contract to provide services. This responses to this form will be shared with the Governor's Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR) and with providers seeking referrals and resources as appropriate.

Please make sure to complete the Psychological First Aid Training (Link for PFA) by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network before you begin your shifts, and to read through the resources on the Shared Drive.

NEW Availability Form for Hawaii licensed providers with immediate (or soon) availability. This form is only for providers with valid Hawaiʻi licenses. Please also forward to your licensed colleagues and/or listservs. Direct link: https://forms.gle/WyKYjfRfkCQgE7Yx6

We still need IN PERSON LICENSED volunteers for Maui THIS WEEK. Please read all the details on Lāhaina Sign-Ups: 8/21-9/7 sheet before signing up. Please help us get coverage there!

If you have any questions about these forms, please contact dr.dlogan@gmail.com or mauikokua@gmail.com

Click here to volunteer for Maui Strong 24/7 Support for Helpers (Open to all, share widely. Used to match mental health needs with opportunities)

• Signing up means you are volunteering your time to be available in a virtual Zoom “room” to provide mutual support for helpers (including therapists, first responders, and other volunteers and workers) who are on the ground in Maui, and/or other volunteers who are helping in various capacities across the state and the world.

• There is no guarantee that individuals will drop in. Think of this as volunteering your time at a support table at a local community center. Sometimes all volunteers will provide support, sometimes they will chat with one another or do other tasks.

• This is NOT a therapy space. We are not requesting your help to provide psychotherapy. Psychological First Aid is ok, as is connecting people with help, care, and other resources.

• Because this room is staffed by volunteers, many of whom are not licensed mental health providers, please contact your liability insurance carrier BEFORE signing up if you are a licensed provider and have concerns about participating.

• If this doesn’t sound like something you are interested in or able to do at this time, that is ok! We need volunteers in many ways and probably for weeks and months to come. Sign up on our Volunteer List if you’re interested in helping in other ways.

Once you have signed up, here is important information:

• Zoom Meeting 88263804569 Password: 12345
• 24/7 Support for Helpers (Direct link)‍
• Guidelines for 24/7 Volunteers - access resources and guidelines for zoom volunteers to hold talk story space (non-clinical, not therapy, not mental health services)
• Volunteer information and resources can be found on this form.
• Please submit volunteer feedback (after your shift) via this form.
• For additional questions, please contact our Admin team at mauikokua@gmail.com,

Maui Rapid Response is an ahupuaʻa based disaster response team made up of individuals from the Maui community and a number of nonprofit and direct-aid organizations. Founded in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 shut down, Maui Rapid Response is a decentralized citizen collective driven entirely by community values and needs, with a commitment to prioritizing support for native Hawaiians and vulnerable members of our local community. All funds raised in our Maui Mutual Aid Fund and any other fundraising efforts are administered by nonprofit fiscal sponsor Grants Central Station, a 501(c)(3) organization.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A VOLUNTEER SHIFT

As a volunteer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring Maui can recover. We are committed to making a lasting impact, and we need your help to achieve this.

To sign up for a shift, simply sign up for a slot at one of the opportunities currently available at the link below. This helps us stay organized and easily get you signed up for shifts. Continuity is key for building relationships, and staying grounded in our community. We’d love if you could sign up for the same shift more than once and get to know the task and people around it.

‍HAVE A UNIQUE SKILL TO CONTRIBUTE? LET US KNOW

Please fill out our Google Form and select “I Am Offering Help” if you haven’t already done so. This way, we can contact you to use your unique skills for specific deployments that come up. When you complete the form below, you join our Volunteer Opportunities Newsletter as a way to learn about new deployments as they arise. Mahalo nui for your continued support and flexibility as we move and grow to meet our community’s needs.

SIGN UP & BE NOTIFIED OF FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES

Urgent Volunteer Needs

This is a rapidly changing situation. Additional Kitchens are coming online West Side.  Check back often.

Sign up here to: volunteer at Anuha Chapel Kitchen or at Buzzʻs Wharf basecamp

️New Volunteer Registration & Waiver

💬 WhatsApp for HHH Volunteer Coordination Questions

This sign up is for individuals who are interested in volunteering for one hour or two hour shifts in our 24/7 mutual support space.

Please review the guidelines below BEFORE signing up. Mahalo for your interest and let us know if you have any questions.

Click here to sign up for volunteer shifts for Maui Strong's 24/7 Support for Helpers (through 8/26)

Click here to sign up for volunteer shifts for Maui Strong's 24/7 Support for Helpers (8/27 forward)

• Signing up means you are volunteering your time to be available in a virtual Zoom “room” to provide mutual support for helpers (including therapists, first responders, and other volunteers and workers) who are on the ground in Maui, and/or other volunteers who are helping in various capacities across the state and the world.

• There is no guarantee that individuals will drop in. Think of this as volunteering your time at a support table at a local community center. Sometimes all volunteers will provide support, sometimes they will chat with one another or do other tasks.

• This is NOT a therapy space. We are not requesting your help to provide psychotherapy. Psychological First Aid is ok, as is connecting people with help, care, and other resources.

• Because this room is staffed by volunteers, many of whom are not licensed mental health providers, please contact your liability insurance carrier BEFORE signing up if you are a licensed provider and have concerns about participating.

• If this doesn’t sound like something you are interested in or able to do at this time, that is ok! We need volunteers in many ways and probably for weeks and months to come. Sign up on our Volunteer List if you’re interested in helping in other ways.

Once you have signed up, here is important information:

• Zoom Meeting 88263804569 Password: 12345
• 24/7 Support for Helpers Zoom Support Chat Room (Direct link)
• Volunteer information and resources can be found on this form
• Please submit volunteer feedback (after your shift) via this form
• For additional questions, please contact our Admin team at mauikokua@gmail.com

MAHALO!

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Maui Strong Mental Health Response

Due to a high volume of emails, we deeply appreciate your patience.

Please let us know if you're interested/available to coordinate or co-coordinate any efforts.

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COMMUNITY RESOURCES & EVENTS:

Maui Strong Support Google Group - Join, ensure email access, share.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Volunteer Form - Open to all, share widely.

24/7 Support Zoom Room volunteer sign up

Call for Help Volunteer Form

Virtual Meetups:

OWR Zoom Updates - 12pm-1pm | Mental health & resource updates.

Training & Support:

Google Calendar of Events - Browse groups and trainings, email to add

3-hr PFA Training - 8/19/23, 9am-12pm HST | CEUs, open to all.

5-hr PFA Course - On-demand, free, for all experience levels

Hawai'i Trauma-Informed Task Force Presentations:

1. View from 31:43 for Historical, Social, & Cultural Determinants of Mental Health for Native Hawaiians by Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, Ph.D.
2. View from 1:03:29 for Implicit Bias and Care by Andrea Hermosura, Ph.D. & Rebecca Delafield, Ph.D.
   

If you’d like to support Maui’s relief efforts, currently the best way you can provide immediate support is by making a donation.

Online donations can more quickly be utilized to help provide support and food assistance to those in need. 100% of donations received will go directly to Maui Food Bank. You may also make a donation directly by visiting MauiFoodBank.org.

We know the communities impacted will need ongoing support as they work to recover in the days, weeks and months to come. We and Maui Food Bank are dedicated to providing continued support to all families as they get back on their feet.  

Volunteer Opportunities:
808-954-7866 & volunteer@hawaiifoodbank.org

Food and Fund Drives: 
808-954-7867 | fooddrive@hawaiifoodbank.org

Donor Services:
808-954-7853 | donorservices@hawaiifoodbank.org

Food Industry Donations:
808-954-7860 | teri@hawaiifoodbank.org

Press/Interview Requests:
808-954-7858 | danny@hawaiifoodbank.org