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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu has been serving Hawaiis children since 1963. The brainchild of Honolulu Judge Gerald R. Corbett, several of Hawaiis community leaders, including George Schnak, the late Henry Damon and the late Ernest Kai met in Judge Corbetts chambers with a common concern, the direction in which many of Hawaiis youth were headed. Corbett, a Juvenile Court Judge saw first-hand that one-half of the boys who stepped into his courtroom came from broken homes. The meeting of this civic-minded group led to the forming of an organization where men could volunteer their time with fatherless boys and provide a positive male role model through individualized friendship and ideally turn this trend around. In March of 1963, the Big Brothers program was officially incorporated. In 1972, Hawaii Big Sisters was founded to work with girls from single-parent homes. Five years later, in 1979, Big Brothers of Hawaii and Hawaii Big Sisters merged their programs, becoming Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu, Inc., unifying to serve the needs of all children from single-parent families.

Address: 418 Kuwili Street, Suite 106 Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-5364
Telephone: 808 521 3811
Fax: 808 528 1599
Website: http://www.bigshonolulu.org/