2025 UPDATE!   This event is rescheduled to Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute at Ko Olina. Fifty Waianae and Nanakuli Intermediate 8th grade young men will be participating. We're so excited to be completing this youth project! The change was due to inclement weather on 1/30/25 and to keep everyone safe.

 

Mahalo to our Distinguished 2025 Speakers and Role Models:

• Keynote: Brian Keaulana, Community Leader. lifesaver, surfer, stuntman, and movie director.
• Kumu Kyle "Kaliko" Chang, PsyD, Waianae Coast Comprehensive H.C.
• Landen Muasau, Director Provider Relations, WCCHC
• Mike Lambert, Director of Law Enforcement, State of Hawaii
• Leon Florendo, Senior Counselor, Leeward Community College Waianae Moku Education Center
• Dr. Richard Tesoro, Dentist, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center
• Jessie Mikisobe-Keliinohomoku, Food Access Manager @ Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.

 

Our first Kāne `Opio event was a year-long project kicked off on October 11, 2018 and continued until January 2020, then resumed in May 2022 after COVID.  Activities and topics include Culture, Hawaiiana, Protocol, Career Pathways, Leadership, Life Skills and Community Service.  50 8th grade male students are invited to attend from Waianae and Nanakuli Intermediate Schools. Each school selects their attendees who show leadership qualities.

 

 Mahalo to our 2025 Sponsors:  Atherton Family Foundation, Hawaiian Electric, First Hawaiian Bank, NFL Pro Bowl Foundation, FX Hawaii, Goodwill Kapolei, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, McDonald's of Hawaii (Waianae & Nanakuli), Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute, James Campbell Development, and Westside Stories. 

For more information contact info@valleyofrainbows.org.

 

Mele ʻĀlana

Composed by Na Makalauna Feliciano & Nu`uanu Lenchanko

 

Kāhiko ʻia nā pali e ka ʻōpua lā ʻeā

Surrounded is the cliff by the bellowing clouds

‘O nā pua leialoha ʻea lā ʻeā

The loving leis of flowers

A he makana i ke alana ʻole lā ʻeā

a gift, endless gift

Eia aloha wale, o ka leo e

Here a loving gift is the voice

 

 

 

Kāne `Opio Leadership Project