After more than three years as your OHA Trustee, I’ve realized that our work for the Lahui is far from over. We will continue to work tirelessly on your behalf, support and uplift our communities, and uphold our duties as responsible fiduciary officers. This is my promise to you.
My initiatives will focus on:
Mental Health Services, Home Repairs, and the Public Land Trust
All Hawai‘i can vote in OHA.
Vote: ALAPA, LUANA for Moloka‘i Resident Trustee
Aloha Kakou!
I am Luana Alapa, a Native Hawaiian and proud homesteader of an agricultural lot in Ho‘olehua, Molokai.
I am honored to be running for re-election to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for Moloka‘i and Lana‘i. With over three years of dedicated service as your OHA Trustee, I am committed to continuing the vital work of supporting and uplifting our communities. My goal is to ensure that our Lahui thrives, preserving our culture and values while addressing the challenges we face. I humbly ask for your support as we move forward together, working tirelessly for a brighter future for Molokai, Lanai and the State of Hawai‘i. Mahalo!
Since my election to the OHA Board of Trustees in 2020, despite the pandemic minimizing many OHA activities, I have actively engaged with the community through various personal initiatives:
Donating $3,000 to the Molokai Rodeo Scholarship Fund, benefiting two high school seniors.
Organizing an Easter toy giveaway at Lanikeha Center, with over $20,000 in toys donated to our island keiki.
Hosting a holiday gingerbread house decorating event for our keiki, with over $600 worth of gingerbread houses donated.
Donating over $500 worth of Christmas gifts for the Ho‘olehua Homestead Association's annual Christmas party.
Contributing $500 to the Kualapu‘u Charter School annual fundraiser.
Establishing the Aloha Diaper Bank - Molokai to provide free diapers to struggling Molokai families.
Founding Ho‘ohana Molokai, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of our Native Hawaiian community.
Our first assistance award supported home repairs for Kupuna, donating $20,000 to the Ho‘olehua Homestead Association and $1,000 to their scholarship fund, benefiting two high school seniors.
$5,000 to Aloha Diaper Bank - Molokai.
$2,000 to Akana Athletics for a sports camp for island youths.
$1,000 Youth in Motion - Molokai.
$2,000 Na Wahine o Ke Kai - Molokai to Oahu women’s Koa canoe division.
$30,000 to Molokai Baptist Independent Church for home repairs for Native Hawaiian beneficiaries.
Donating $1,000 for the Molokai High School Culinary student scholarship fundraiser and securing a $1,000 purchase of a VIP table for the Ho‘olehua Homestead Scholarship luau fundraiser.
Why You Should Vote in OHA
Fact: All State of Hawaii registered voters, regardless of race, ethnicity have the right and duty to vote for OHA Trustees.
Don’t leave your ballot blank. ALL Hawai‘i - ALL ethnicities - AND you don’t have to reside on the island to vote OHA Moloka‘i/Lana‘i Trustee.
Re-Elect ALAPA, LUANA for Moloka‘i/Lana‘i Resident Trustee. GENERAL ELECTION: November 5, 2024
VOTE.
I humbly ask for your vote on November 5, 2024.
If you need to register to vote, please do so by October 28, 2024. Click Here.
My Home
Here’s a quick tour of my late father Stanley Alapa’s Ho‘olehua Ag lot! My sisters and I come from divorced parents so we’d travel back & forth - Laie & Moloka‘i - from the mid 1970’s.
I will work hard to develop my father’s master blue prints of his beautiful property to include a Hawaiian Cultural center, a Café - farm to table of fresh grown fruits, vegetables - a healing garden featuring Hawaiian medicinal herbs, a country store, he wanted to ensure his Ag lot was self-sustaining - develop our own water catchment system, solar panels generate own electricity, etc. This is MY HOME now - a place where I will live til my last days on earth and to see to it that my father’s blue prints become a REALITY! This is for you Dad!
FACT: Over 100,000 Ballots were left BLANK in the last Moloka‘i Resident OHA Trustee election.
Dont leave your OHA ballot blank for 2024.
Your vote does matter in choosing the right candidate for Moloka‘i Trustee — Luana Alapa
