The program segment, filmed at Assistance League of Hawaii’s Thrift Shop and at an Operation Wildlife (OWL) presentation at Palisades Elementary School, showcased the organization’s mission of giving back to the community, especially underserved children.

Run entirely by volunteers, with over 100 members, Assistance League of Hawaii is always looking for more volunteers and donations.

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The focus of the PSA is aimed at building awareness of our programs and volunteering. The image above is from the closing splash screen of the PSA.

Instrumental in bringing the PSA from concept to finished product are the following members and volunteers: Producers Chris Pelletier, Linda McColgan, Mary Monohon and Melvin Ah Ching. Special thanks to volunteer Lisa Davidson who wrote and edited the final script. Evern Williams of Olelo Community Relations and all the other people at that fine organization, who provided us with their technical expertise and airtime. Last but not least, a big mahalo to Hazel Sumile who became our on-air talent and the voice of Assistance League of Hawaii’s first video PSA.

I wanted you to know that our chapter will be on K5 tonight on a program called Inspire You and Me. Gloria and I were interviewed a while back about Operation School Bell and our chapter. Check it out or set your DVR. We will have a link on our website later on for you to see as well.  – From Mary Monohon, President Assistance League of Hawaii.

Program Description

Mary Monohon & Gloria McGehee-Koel, from the Assistance League of Hawaii, inspire us with their volunteer work to help to better the lives of children. The non-profit organization has been helping the community for over 50 years. The Assistance League of Hawaii is able to fund their programs through the money they make at their owned and operated thrift store. Mary and Gloria highlight Operation School Bell, a program that raises money to give children in need money to buy new school clothing. Gloria is inspired by the diverse group of volunteers at the Assistance League of Hawaii. Mary is inspired by the volunteers’ service-oriented hearts and the satisfaction of helping others through hard work.

K5 THE HOME TEAM LIVE STREAM (Program airs 9:30 PM Sat. Nov. 9 | Other content may be showing on link before or after.)

INSPIRE YOU and ME Web Page with archived content.

An updated link may be posted later.

Assistance League of Hawaii on K5’s INSPIRE program.

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The film explores Assistance League’s signature program, Operation School Bell, which provides clothing, backpacks, books, and basic necessities to children who are a part of the foster system, low income, or homeless. It showcases amazing individuals quietly donating their time and talents to help others. Some of the spotlighted people include those who were once helped and now themselves giving back.

Today, the Assistance League’s 120 chapters across the country continue to change the lives of children and adults, and shows that in a still pond, even the smallest pebble can create huge and far reaching ripples.

A Pebble in the Pond was produced by FreeStyle Digital Media in 2022. It was written and directed by Paul Howard and features Ann Benson, Karis Campbell and Abby Shayne. The film streams for free with ads on TUBI TV or commercial free on Amazon Prime Video (subscription required).

The revised slide presentation was ready for 2021’s Action Week for February. In an article appearing in the March membership newsletter, Gerri wrote:

“This year due to COVID-19 restrictions, Assistance League of Hawaii’s Marketing Team created and produced an educational slide show presentation for Action Week.

The slide show helped distance learning students as well as those doing face-to-face, in-class instruction to equally learn what they can do to help Hawaii’s environment. The presentation focused on sustaining Hawaii’s environment to save the endangered endemic animals and plants from going extinct.

Letters were sent to schools with agreements with Assistance League of Hawaii around the State inviting them to connect to our website for the slide presentation “Sustaining Hawaii’s Environment for Your Future”. We also selected a book, “What a Waste” to give to schools that participated and returned surveys to us. There are also supporting worksheets and evaluations for teachers to use in their classes.

The video was uploaded onto YouTube and embedded to a specially created Assistance League Hawaii webpage. It was made available for viewing starting February 15. It will be available for public viewing through the end of the school year.”

The video appears at the bottom of this post.

For 2022, the Operation Wildlife Committee is putting together a new slideshow which will be shared with students around Oahu.

CSL Project 2019 by Haley Tateyama.