Over the next couple of months the Hualalai Members’ Blog will post some information leading up to the Ohana Foundation’s Annual Event on August 1st. Cara Price, the Executive Director, of the Foundation will periodically have us post success stories of some of the recipients of the Foundation’s grants.
Cara Price offered this: “Today features Medical Award recipient Faith Pai, who was our guest at the 2014 Dinner and Auction. We have had lots of inquiry from residents wondering about her, so she seemed the ideal choice for our first story.”
Faith Pai receiving her recent school award for “Being a Quality Producer”
Who doesn’t remember adorable Faith Pai from the 2014 Hualalai Ohana Foundation Auction event? She was the darling 6 year old who stole the show, dancing around the stage while Donna Chipps and her parents Rafer Pai and Neav McAllister spoke about her story.
Rafer Pai worked at Hualalai Resort and when his daughter Faith was just five, she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She endured over a year of Chemotherapy and specialized treatments. Fortunately, during that time the Hualalai Ohana Foundation was able to assist the Pai Ohana and provide them with the much needed financial support that allowed Faith’s family to be with her during her treatments in Oahu.
The news now is great; Faith has been in remission for a year! Faithy, as she is called by family is a happy Kindergartner at Hookena elementary and made it on the May Day court, representing the island of Niihau. She is an active young girl and just learned to ride bike without training wheels. She takes weekly music class and Hula.
Faith’s mom Neav said “Every day is a blessing. To start, we are thankful that the folks at Hualalai foundation and the homeowners that have kept Faith in their thoughts. We reflect often on how the outpouring of support and well wishes we received helped us tremendously through Faith’s treatment and recovery”.
To celebrate her good health and with the help of the Make-a-Wish Foundation Faith is now looking forward to her Granted Wish, a week-long Disney Caribbean Cruise in June!
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