#Emergency Loans

In the scramble to make ends meet, increasingly more consumers like Mapuana Hanapi are turning to an often overlooked emergency loan program at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA).

Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) today announced that U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack has designated all four counties in Hawaii as agricultural disaster areas due to losses caused by this year’s drought.  A Secretarial disaster designation makes farm operators and producers in both primary and contiguous counties eligible to be considered for Farm […]