Haiku Stream Cleanup

February 23, 2019

On February 23rd, 2019, the HKN Delta-Omega Chapter participated in the Haiku Stream clean up. The event took place in Kaneohe, at Papahana Kuaola from 9 am to 12 pm. The attendees for this event included the President of the HKN Delta-Omega Chapter, Mr. Vincent Mitsui, along with the ten HKN pledges. To begin the event, the primary caretakers of the land explained the basic tasks they complete throughout the week in order to keep the land clean and pristine. The caretakers then proceeded to describe the simple tasks that we were gonna do throughout the volunteer event. Once all the directions were given, we headed to the loʻis to begin work. Our task was to transfer buckets of mud from the bottom loʻi to the loʻis on the upper end of the land. In order to effectively move the heavy buckets of mud from the bottom to the top of the land, we formed a long line of people and handed the buckets from person to person as far up the land as possible. If the buckets did not reach the top by the end of the line, we would shift the entire line of people up and begin the bucket transfer again until all the buckets were at the top loʻis. After all the mud was transfered to the top of the land, we dumped the mud into the four loʻis at the top. We hopped into the loʻis and used our hands and feet to get rid of clumps of mud and to mx the new mud in with the already present mud in the loʻi. This entire process was repeated for the remainder of the time.

• Jordan Florita