Over 200 people gathered together to celebrate and thank our 2019 Honorees on May 4 at the UH Hilo Campus Center. The Friends, celebrating their 29th year of assisting children of abuse and neglect in East Hawaii, were happy to shift the focus to honoring one busy businessman and hard-working representatives from a local service club.
The Children’s Justice Center of East Hawaii and the FRIENDS are housed in an older craftsman style house that can need some maintenance and cleaning from time to time. The Akaka Falls Lions Club (another honorée of our 2019 Gala) have helped clean, paint, repair and “spruce up” the Center over many years.
The FRIENDS are thrilled by Bill Miller of Discount Fabric Warehouse’s project “BAGS OF HOPE”.When Bill learned that many children of abuse who are removed from their living environments often put their meager belongings in a large black trash bag. (Bill is one of our honorées of our 2019 Gala).
For our fourth year, the Friends are honoring “friends” of the Friends. Tickets are now available right here. Please click on BUY TICKETS at the bottom of this post. This year we honor Bill Miller of Discount Fabric Warehouse and the Akaka Falls Lions Club. This year the Gala will be at the UH Hilo Campus Center, with No Host cocktails and Silent Auction beginning at 5:30pm followed by dinner and program at 6:30pm.
Young ladies want to attend PROM, WINTER BALL, and BANQUETS, but sometimes financial hardship can stand in the way of getting the really perfect dress. Beginning in November of 2017, the FRIENDS launched the third annual PROM DRESS DRIVE to collect gently used dresses and accessories to provide fashionable clothing for deserving youth.
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It’s November and it is again time for the PHANTOM FUNDRAISER! You don’t have to leave your home, hunt for parking… just click on the DONATE LINK and help us help the abused keiki in East Hawaii! CLICK HERE TO DONATE Read More
Did you miss it? Mai Tai Masquerade was a huge success on Friday, Oct. 27!
Attendees party the FRIENDS’ MAI TAI MASQUERADE on Friday, October 27 at 5:30 pm at the beautiful Nani Mau Gardens! Their attendance benefits the FRIENDS in their work helping children of abuse here in East Hawaii!
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The Akaka Falls Lions Club returned to the Children’s Justice Center of East Hawaii on a hot and sunny day to provide a needed maintenance service project and then capped the day with a donation of $10,000 from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.
Discount Fabric Warehouse (DFW), long a supporter of our local East Hawaii community, together with Project Linus, Department of Public Safety and the Aloha Exchange Club of East Hawaii stepped up to provide hand-made pillow cases and blankets to the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of East Hawaii.
25 bright green backpacks were given to FRIENDS’ board member Kathy Romero (pictured here) at the end of the Orchid Show in early June, 2017. The FRIENDS are busy getting ready for the Back-to-School rush for backpacks, clothing and school supplies requests that will be pouring in by early July.