{{Short description|Hawaiian charity}} thumb|300x300px|Lunalilo Home photographed in 1885 '''Lunalilo Home''' is a Hawaiian charity that provides community living service for the elderly in need of assistance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Lunalilo Home |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-senior-living/lunalilo-home-C187919 |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=US News}}</ref> The charity serves also other Native Hawaiian people struggling with poverty.
==History== The charity was founded by the will of Lunalilo who died in 1874. The trustees of the charity would be picked by the judges of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Lunalilo Home |url=https://www.lunalilo.org/about/history-of-lunalilo-home |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Lunalilo Home |language=en}}</ref> Lunalilo Home was established in 1883 and was originally located in Makiki.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lunalilo Home |url=http://malamakupuna.weebly.com/lunalilo-home.html |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Making a Difference for our Kupuna Hawaii}}</ref> Originally there were 53 residents.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Lunalilo Home Master Plan Review Report |url=https://www.oha.org/wp-content/uploads/Lunalilo-Home-Review-Report.pdf |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Office of Hawaiian Affairs}}</ref> For 12 years, beginning in 1889, Maria J. Forbes served as manager of Lunalilo Home.<ref name="Portraits1901">{{cite book |editor=Hawaiian Mission Children's Society |title=Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii; |date=1901 |publisher=Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette Co. |location=Honolulu |url=https://archive.org/details/portraitsofameri00hawarich/page/96 |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
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Category:Charities based in Hawaii Category:1874 establishments in Hawaii Category:Hawaiian royalty