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Project SHINE

SHINE stands for Students Helping In the Naturalization of Elders. This service learning program, conducted nationwide, pairs college students with elderly immigrant men and women, providing tutoring in civics education and English as a second language for the citizenship/naturalization exam.

The program is funded by the Corporation for National Service, the US Department of Education, and Learn and Serve America.

In Hawaiʻi, SHINE operates as a partnership between faculty and students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kapiʻolani Community College, and Chaminade University. Each semester, students are recruited to participate as tutors in weekly 2-hour sessions with elderly immigrants who need assistance.

College students who participate as tutors receive credit through the classes offering SHINE as a service learning project option. The tutees also benefit in learning US civics, as well as becoming more competent in reading, writing, and speaking the English language.

Our Goals

To tutor immigrants of Honolulu communities - to help them learn English and pass their citizenship exams . . . thus maintaining their quality-of-life.
To promote inter-ethnic agency, community, and university collaboration.
To raise the consciousness of college students concerning government policies toward immigrants and the “immigrant experience”.
To promote and facilitate the empowerment of immigrants in Hawaiʻi.

Where We Are

SHINE takes place in 3 sites on Oʻahu: Kukui Tower and Sui Wah/Sun-Yet School - both located in Chinatown, and the FILCOM (Filipino Community Center) in Waipahu.

See the map and directions to our sites:

Chinatown: Kukui Tower and Sui Wah School.

Waipahu: Filipino Community Center.