Lamalama Ka Ulu is a Native Hawaiian women-led nonprofit founded in 2021 to carry forward

generations of community healing, cultural education, and land-based service.  

• We steward 5.5 acres of ancestral land returned through community care, ceremony, and trust. A living example of land return in action.

• We serve across Hawai'i through lomilomi (traditional bodywork), lā'au Lapa'au (plant medicine), free food distribution, education, and ceremony.

• Guided by ancestral practice, prayer , advisory boards, and accountability to the communities we love.

• Built on nearly two decades of training under respected teachers and practitioner in Hawaiian healing and land stewardship

• From this foundation, we are ready to expand the circle of healing to ensure more land and resources flow ba into community stewardship.

Native Hawaiians have a higher rate of death in comparison to all other ethnicities in Hawaiʻi. Hawaiians have a 68% higher rate of Heart disease, 34% higher rate of Cancer, 20% higher rate of Stroke, and 13% higher rate for Diabetes.  These statistics are compared to the population of the state of Hawaiʻi. Areas where there is a greater number of Native Hawaiians like Waiʻanae Oʻahu, Puna and South Kohala on Hawaii island have the next highest rates for Cardio Metabolic Disorders and Diabetes. 

But even now, as we acknowledge and seek to heal our inter-generational traumas, we must also recognize how deeply embedded our intergenerational strengths are in our people. Lamalama Ka Ulu will give voice and healing to those strengths and empower our people to no longer identify with the statistics and illnesses that seek to make them into numbers and reclaim their personal health, the health of their 'ohana and of all the communities in Hawaiʻi.