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The Kau Kau Wagon was started back in 1987.  I saw a great need in the community to have a program that reached out to those in need. I knew we could make a difference. I knew from personal experience how it was to live through hard times.

 Kau Kau Wagon continue to grow sometimes faster then we could afford. All the funding early on came from any over time I was getting and anything I can beg my friends to help with. To this day over 20 yrs later it continue to grow faster and bigger then I had expected. The economy, people who have been laid off and struggling financially to get by. We do the best we can. We help unconditionally.

What is wonderful and speaks  volumes is the trust we have created with those we serve and the community around us that helps us to keep on doing what we do.

The Kau Kau Wagon has become a major service to the downtown communities needy and has drawn a large number of impressive volunteers. Some Kau Kau Wagon volunteers are regulars. 

Our Board member are the best! They volunteer their time, resources and energy to keep us going all year long. 

 Norma, Hollie, Al, Vina, Donna,  Kathy, Rebecca, Avee, Sharon, Fitz, have been great blessings to us. Some of our volunteers have recieved the Presidential Community Volunteer Service Award.

Include the equally and more impressive members of those Ohana of the heart with the Kau Kau Wagon for more then 10 yrs would be Ross Brown, Dr. Denis Mee Lee, Dr Tom Leland, Kathy Vance MSW and her family, Pat Thieland MSW, Mary DeDinino MSW and her family, The Seventh Day Adventist Church of Manoa,  CENTRAL UNION CHURCH. LOVES BAKERY, HAWAII FOOD BANK, ALOHA HARVEST, TAILS OF ALOHA,JAMBA JUICE, PFCHANGS,  Aloha Island Self Storage,  CFI Inc,  David, Nina, The News Media,

We have so many members that have worked with us for yrs, some that have been with us now for a few years such as, Aldon Perkins, Donna, her family and her church members, Sam, Nick,
Sooooo many too name!!!!

Some of our regulars are join us yearly for our Thanksgiving Celebration every year. Sue Dowsett HPD and her family, Mark Nakagawa HPD, and many of it’s members, Curt Kamahele, Radford High School, Hawaii University Pre Med Students,  Countless individuals. I just can’t name enough but one day I will name them all. I do know one thing some have come and gone but everyone of them meant the difference of hope for no less then a moment of time and hope.

And then our awesome new members of our family from the military and the community. The list is never ending!!!