ABOUT ME
Mālama Honua Autobiography
Aloha mai, My name is Micah Kaliko Pascua. Iʻve been attending Kamehameha since 7th grade when I was 12 years old. I now reside in Liholiho dormitory I am from Hanapēpē, Kauaʻi. The name of the wind in my ahupuaʻa is named Aoao. My puʻu is Waiʻaleʻale. Manawaiopuna is a famous waterfall that feeds my ahupuaʻa. Hanapēpē means crushed bay, it was names after the landslides that happened in the area. Hanapēpē was built because of the sugar influences that the big sugar companies. The entire island of Kauaʻi is very laid back and is very “old school” Mālama Honua means to take care of our earth as well as the land that we physically live on. It even means to take care of land that you are not even connected too because the only way to fully mālama our earth everybody needs to do their part. We can do this by keeping trash out of the ocean. Also by honoring our marine life by protecting them. We also need to keep our ʻāina clean and pure. Because we are not the only life that matters on this earth. We are only a part of a bigger system of life organisms. What really shaped my mindset of mālama honua was the way I was raised back at home on Kauaʻi. Everything is old school in the sense of preserving what was. There is also deeper respect for the ʻāina than say Oʻahu. I also worked in the salt patches in Hanapēpē and I get to make salt. There is no sense in making salt if the water is poluted becasue the salt will also become polluted. I also take care of the ʻāina by working in the loʻi and māla. This shapes my mindset by learning that we can benefit by working with the ʻāina and not against it. Another event that shaped my thinking in developing a mālama honua mindset was when I first started boarding in Oʻahu. I noticed how pilau Oʻahu really is and how damaged the ʻāina is. It was definetley a culture shock. It made me develop the sense of taking care of what is ours for the future generations |