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Welcome to our homeless SHELTER IN THE STORM!
To help understand us, let's start with a few Hawaiian words:
ALOHA: {Our Mission} To show faith, hope, love,mercy, kindness, forgiveness, compassion; to remember with affection; Salutations: Greetings! Hello! Good-by! Farewell!
KOKUA: {Our Goal} To help, aid, assist, support, accomodate, co-operate;
KUMU: {Our Solution} 1. To teach, tutor. 2. Offer a beginning, source, origin; starting point. 3. Establish a base, foundation. 4. Find reason, cause, goal, motive, purpose, why.
MALAMA: {Our Offering} To take care of, tend, care for, preserve, protect, maintain; caretaker, brother's keeper.
MALIHINI: {Our Guests} Newcomer, company; one unfamiliar with a place or custom; for the first time.
PILIKIA: {Our Residents Problem} Experience trouble of any kind, great or small; distress, adversity, affliction, accident, difficulty, tragedy, lack; troubled, bothered, cramped, crowded. (See 'a'ole pilikia = no problem, no trouble.)
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