Regardless of where we come from or what our DNA says we are, mālama, to take care of something, is an inherent part of Hawaiʻi’s collective consciousness. Pulling from the work of one of NaHHAʻs founding board members and inspired by Senator Kenny Brownʻs Mālama speech given in 1973, the value of mālama acknowledges the need to feel rooted, connected and responsible for our places of origin or the places we call home and sets a course of action where the guiding principles of mālama can be put into daily practice.