Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Hawai'i

RPCVHI Community Activities

RPCVHI shares information about many community activities with its members.  In the past, RPCVHI has participated in Earth Day events, beach Clean up events, and packing school supplies for needy children.

On Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2026, RPCVs begn the year honoring the land and carrying forward our commitment to mālama ʻāina. ( love the land and the land will love you).  RPCVs spent three hours at the Kupa A'ina Farms weeding and cleaning fields to prepare for more plants.  

Kupa ʻAina Farms is located on the grounds of the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center and serves as a place of learning, healing and connection to ʻāina.  The produce harvested at the Farms is used at the Family Wellness Center and other facilities on the site.  

      

Below:  backing school supplies in 2025

RPCVHI members helped pack 2000 senior food boxes at the Hawai'i Foodbank on Oahu.

RPCVHI members have partnered with local Rotary organizations as part of the Peace Corps/Rotary Partnering for Peace national program. On Oahu, Rotarians and RPCVs worked at Castle High School's Butterfly garden.  In 2022 and 2023, Hilo Rotary members and RPCVs installed a Peace Poles at the Hilo airport- one at the outside entrance and the other in the inside atrium. 

RPCVHI members have participated in the  Annual Language and Cultural Festival at Moanalua High School on Oahu since 2019.  Moanalua High School has the largest second language program in Oahu and RPCVs are invited to share their use of a second ( or even a third) language in their volunteer work overseas.  RPCVs participate as judges for students who give speeches.