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Victor Kaiwi Pang, founding President of Pacific Islander Health Partnership, passed away on April 5, 2018 in Oahu, HI.
He was married to his wife, Jane Ka'ala Pang, for over 50 years. He is survived by his wife, his two sons, Benton Keali'i and Edmond Kamekona, and his four grandchildren, Kiana, Makena, Kalia, and Kalani. Uncle Kaiwi's devotion to Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities will be remembered. |
Since 2003, Pacific Islander Health Partnership has served indigenous Native Hawaiians Pacific Islanders (NHPI) to outreach, educate island communities, train leaders, engage island communities in community based participatory research (CBPR), provide scholarships, advocate and build community capacity for health for all islanders to reduce health disparities in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other chronic illnesses that disproportionately affect PI communities, with special programs for island seniors and youth.
Our Vision: Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders living in good health and well being.
Mission: Serve indigenous Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders to engage & educate island
communities, train leaders, engage communities in community based participatory
research (CBPR), advocate and build community capacity for health to reduce health
disparities in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other chronic illnesses that
disproportionately affect PI communities, with special programs for island seniors and youth.
Our Vision: Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders living in good health and well being.
Mission: Serve indigenous Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders to engage & educate island
communities, train leaders, engage communities in community based participatory
research (CBPR), advocate and build community capacity for health to reduce health
disparities in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other chronic illnesses that
disproportionately affect PI communities, with special programs for island seniors and youth.
Our core values are listed below in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (the Hawaiian Language). They are based on Native Hawaiian values, which are shared across all our island communities and languages:
- ALOHA: caring, compassion for others, sympathy, love/affection
- KŌKUA: help, assist, comfort, support
- KULEANA: privilege, responsibility, title, job
- MĀLAMA: caring, nurturing others, to protest, stewardship for land (mālama `āina) and ocean (mālama ke kai)
- LŌKAHI: unity, agreement, accord, keep in balance with mind, body and spirit; imbalance causing illness and disease
- PONO: correct, right, good, moral, fair, proper, just
- KŪPAʻA: stand firm, steadfast, firm, loyal, to strengthen, establish
- ʻIKE PONO: to know, to feel, to understand, to recognize
- HOʻOMAU: to preserve, to perpetuate, to continue
- HAʻAHAʻA: humility, humbleness, modesty
- ALOHA: caring, compassion for others, sympathy, love/affection
- KŌKUA: help, assist, comfort, support
- KULEANA: privilege, responsibility, title, job
- MĀLAMA: caring, nurturing others, to protest, stewardship for land (mālama `āina) and ocean (mālama ke kai)
- LŌKAHI: unity, agreement, accord, keep in balance with mind, body and spirit; imbalance causing illness and disease
- PONO: correct, right, good, moral, fair, proper, just
- KŪPAʻA: stand firm, steadfast, firm, loyal, to strengthen, establish
- ʻIKE PONO: to know, to feel, to understand, to recognize
- HOʻOMAU: to preserve, to perpetuate, to continue
- HAʻAHAʻA: humility, humbleness, modesty