After-School All-Stars Hawaii

After-School All-Stars Hawaii (ASAS) partners with ten schools on Oahu and Hawaii Island to provide after-school and summer programs designed to keep children safe and help them achieve in school and in their lives. With a grant from the Cooke Foundation, ASAS provided after-school academic and enrichment activities to over 1,900 students in the 2014–2015 school year. In addition to academic and sports-related activities, all of ASAS’s students participated in a service learning project through which they contributed to the betterment of their communities. The service learning projects were created and led by the students, and include a homeless outreach project, a Hawaiian Monk Seal awareness and fundraising project, preparing meals for firefighters, interviewing community members about their social concerns, and reading to young children. As ASAS describes it, the service learning projects allow the students the chance to be a “hero.”

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