Lunalilo Home
{{Short description|Hawaiian charity}}
File:Lunalilo Home in 1885, photograph by J. J. Williams.jpg
Lunalilo Home is a Hawaiian charity that provides community living service for the elderly in need of assistance.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Lunalilo Home |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-senior-living/lunalilo-home-C187919 |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=US News}} The charity serves also other Native Hawaiian people struggling with poverty.
History
The charity was founded by the will of Lunalilo who died in 1874. The trustees of the charity would be picked by the judges of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.{{Cite web |title=History of Lunalilo Home |url=https://www.lunalilo.org/about/history-of-lunalilo-home |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Lunalilo Home |language=en}} Lunalilo Home was established in 1883 and was originally located in Makiki.{{Cite web |title=Lunalilo Home |url=http://malamakupuna.weebly.com/lunalilo-home.html |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Making a Difference for our Kupuna Hawaii}} Originally there were 53 residents.{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Lunalilo Home Master Plan Review Report |url=https://www.oha.org/wp-content/uploads/Lunalilo-Home-Review-Report.pdf |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Office of Hawaiian Affairs}} For 12 years, beginning in 1889, Maria J. Forbes served as manager of Lunalilo Home.{{cite book |editor=Hawaiian Mission Children's Society |title=Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii; |date=1901 |publisher=Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette Co. |location=Honolulu |url=https://archive.org/details/portraitsofameri00hawarich/page/96 |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}