Feelings of connection and purpose save lives.
Aims:
– Keeping Veterans active to promote healthier and happier lives.
– Facilitating friendships and a sense of community among Veterans.
– Providing Veterans with a sense of purpose and something to look forward to.
Annual Veterans Games “Koa Challenge”
In partnership with the Pacific Islands Health Care System (VAPIHCS), this year’s Koa Challenge event will take place from November 12, 2024, to November 16, 2024.
AmVets Hawaii Service Foundation Corp, EIN:83-0550908 is a 501(c)3 public, non-profit, Veterans Service Organization (VSO).
Over 90% of all donations received will directly fund our programs.
Programs:
- Suicide Prevention and Awareness Program (VA, Cohen Veterans Network and Resurrecting Lives Foundation)
- Adaptive Sports Program (Big Tire Bootcamp and Veterans Administration Pacific Islands Health Care System)
- Warriors ‘Ohana Gardens Program (Landnam Warrior)
- BioModulator Therapy Program (Senergy and Dr. Terry Shintani, MD, JD, MPH, KCSJ)
- Elderly Veterans Care Program (AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary)
- ROTC/JROTC Program (Medals with Certificate Awards)
- Scouting Program (Boys Scouts of America)
- Softball Program (Cobras Softball Hawaii Teams)
- Basketball Program (Basketball Hawaii Youth Academy)
- Community Service Program: American Samoan Weekly Church Services, Harosky Homes’ Bi-Weekly VA Seminars, VA Monthly Art Group Therapy Workshops, Hispanic Events Hawaii’ Annual Hispanic Festival and U.S.Vets’ Monthly Meetings, Miss Hawaii American Scholar Organization and B.R.A.V.E. Hawaii’s Workshops
- Memorials and Commemorative Program: Preservations of the USS ARIZONA Memorial Marble Shrine Wall, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific’s Carillon Memorial, Naval Air Station Barbers Point Memorial, Dr. John Henry Felix Monument, Ewa Battlefield, Ewa Battlefield Pearl Harbor Annual Commemoration Ceremony, West Loch Disaster Annual Commemoration Ceremony, Battle of Midway Annual Commemoration, Memorial Day Annual Commemoration Ceremony, Veteran’s Day Annual Celebration, Annual Suicide Preventative Awareness Summits and Run/Walk to Combat Suicides, and other contest and events.
And most of all, your support will support our program initiatives to benefit our Veterans, transitioning Service members, and their families with needed assistance and advocacy.