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Binhi at Ani will award $32,000 in scholarships to 24 members of the Class of 2025. The eight top-rated students will receive $2,000 while 16 students will receive $1,000.
“The success of our annual Scholarship Golf Tournament and the generosity of our scholarship partners has enabled Binhi at Ani to award the most scholarships in its history,” said Arnel Alvarez, the president of Binhi at Ani. “We are grateful to all those who helped to make it happen.”
The scholars were evaluated by an independent panel of judges and graded on academic achievement (requiring a minimum 3.5 grade point average), honors and activities, an essay and letters of recommendation.
“All the students had outstanding academic records,” said Edward Garcia, co-chairperson of the Scholarship Committee. “They were active in their school activities and volunteered hundreds of hours of their time to support Maui’s community organizations. Plus their essay had to focus on promoting the bayanihan spirit, which is the motto of Binhi at Ani.”
The scholarship recipients will be formally introduced at The Seed and Harvest Dinner on July 12 at the Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center. The newly-elected Binhi at Ani 2025-2026 Board of Directors will also be installed.
The scholarship recipients are:
Binhi at Ani, which means “Seed and Harvest”, is a Hawaii non-profit corporation incorporated in 1985 with a 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Binhi at Ani operates the Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center located at 780 Onehee Ave. in Kahului, which opened in 2005 and is the current site of the annual Barrio Fiesta, celebrated on Maui since 1970.
After the Lahaina fire, Binhi at Ani established the Tulong for Lahaina Fund where qualified applicants (lost home, lost business or lost immediate family member) would receive $750.00. By the deadline of Sept. 30, 2023, 713 applications were received and an independent panel determined that 227 of the applicants qualified. Binhi at Ani raised over $170,000.00 and all of the 227 qualified applicants have received their $750.00 grant as well as an assortment of food boxes, plate lunches, toilet paper, water, comforters and gift cards.
During the pandemic, Binhi at Ani established the monthly Bayanihan Food Distribution Program which is now an annual event and through November 2024, over $70,000 monetary donations were received, enabling the distribution of 9,043 food boxes including 10,320 plate lunches, 1,000 turkeys, 95,740 canned goods, 73,994 pounds of produce, 6,290 bags of rice, 17,041 packages of noodles, 3,661 dozens of eggs, 3,868 loaves of bread/pan de sal, 6,200 McDonald’s certificates, 21,697 beverages, 26,310 snacks, 3,810 containers of spaghetti sauce, 6,006 Maui Gold pineapples, 2,160 gallons of milk, 2,318 boxes of mashed potatoes, 730 whole chickens, over 2,500 dragon fruit and other miscellaneous items such as toilet paper, coffee, goat cheese and masks.
Also during the pandemic, Binhi at Ani established the Bayanihan Feeding Program which as of May 31, 2025, has delivered 35,407 meals to kūpuna; and the Bakuna at Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center program through which eleven vaccination clinics were held.
For more information, contact Alfredo Evangelista at (808) 242-8100 or AlfredoGEvangelista@gmail.com.