Amid the ash of Lahaina, aid and anger are spreading
“Look around,” Keoki Naihe said on Sunday as he nodded at the impromptu encampment feeding a small crowd with organized efficiency at Pohaku Beach Park, questioning why there were no officials lending their support.
“They don’t give a ____ about us,” Alika Peneku chimed in. The home of the self-employed contractor and mechanic was spared from the flames, but after giving it up to a displaced family with an infant, he’s been sleeping on a cot next to neighbors and strangers in one of the groups the community calls “pods.”
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