The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
FIRST PHOTO: Dancers perform hula with musicians Rama and Kamaka Camarillo and Tarvin Makia during Saturday’s Lahaina Keiki Relief Fund Concert at Nalu’s South Shore Grill in Kihei. Organizer Ron Panzo said by mid day more than $40,000 from around the island and the country had been raised for Lahaina’s children. “There is so much aloha coming from all over,” Panzo said. “It’s amazing what’s coming through right now. People are sending their love from all over.” Panzo said along with cash donations, there were also many items donated including school supplies and sports equipment. He said the Keiki Relief Fund Closet scheduled to open soon at Azeka Shopping Center will be a place where children with Lahaina ID can go in and pick up needed items at no cost.
SECOND PHOTO: In the arms of her mom Jenny DuVall, Kihei Elementary School student Alaia Weishaar, 8, explains how she was inspired to create Alaia’s Backpacks of Aloha to help Lahaina school kids. Alaia is making backpacks for displaced students and also raising money, collecting school supplies, sports equipment and dance gear. Her GoFundMe account is Alaia’s Backpacks of Aloha.
THIRD PHOTO: Kihei’s Sanoe Elf dances the hula “Kauanoeanuhea” during Saturday’s Lahaina Keiki Relief Fund Concert at Nalu’s South Shore Grill in Kihei.
- The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
- A worker walks past a destroyed Lahaina neighborhood while helping install a dust fence Wednesday morning. President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Lahaina today. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
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