08/11/2023
Maui has suffered a huge & devastating loss that is impossible to quantify in total. It will not be fixed in days, weeks, months and even years. Our residents & locals are taking it in bit by bit as it's too much to process the magnitude of it all as a whole.
Thank you to all that have reached out & continue to reach out! Even if we haven't been able to respond to all, we are grateful for your love & support - Maui needs it all right now! We are grateful to confirm our Artisan Family is safe and accounted for - as we continue to measure the impact it will have on our community and find ways Artisan can contribute, we take comfort in that safety.
For relief support, Maui needs it now more than ever. Being an Island, resources are extremely limited! The effects are right now but will also be felt by our community for weeks, months & years. If you feel called to donate, please do so to reputable organizations that can gauge and adapt to the needs of the community and truly seek to get relief distributed. If you know families personally affected, donate directly to them - so many lives need to be rebuilt so the need isn't limited to just right now but will be lasting so please, don't forget about Maui in the months to come. If you are donating resources right now, most shelters are creating needs lists and are ever changing. With resources, there are immediate needs but there are also needs that are yet to be known.
Artisan is closely monitoring the needs of our community and will continue to offer support & relief in any way we can.
For our professional partners, friends & family in the mainland & around the world:
-If you would like to make monetary donations, please heed the above and donate to Maui Relief Response, Aloha united way or other local charity that can get the funds immediately and begin dispersing. We will continue to keep tabs and update the list with other charities and local families who have lost everything.
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