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Dung Remains Dedicated To Community Work
FROM PAGE 19
(Above) Darah Dung at a community service event for Echelon. (Left) Dung, dog Shiloh and mom Annette attend a former Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawai‘i’s Christmas party.
PHOTOS COURTESY DARAH DUNG
and end up going home with a pup- py — or two. I’m not going to say who,” she adds coyly. (It’s her. She quickly notes that’s how she added Gage and Shiloh to her family.)
That’s why she’s making time in her busy schedule to
“I’m so appreciative and grate- ful to — of course, my family and our community— but Hawai‘i as a whole. I’m a local girl — born and bred here — and I just hope to give back to the people what I received growing up here. This is my island home ... I’m the end result of the time and dedication and hard work of people who have supported me.”
With all of her community work and her day job, Dung ad- mits that it takes a lot of plan- ning to balance everything.
start her new column, “Mahalo Nui” with MidWeek. In it, she will seek out individuals who people want to thank for doing a good deed.
“I just learned to really pri- oritize the things and the orga- nizations and people that bring positivity to my life,” she says. “I think that it’s so important to just surround yourself with pos- itive things. Especially now, I think people really need that. The things that make me happy and bring me joy are the things that I put at the forefront of my schedule. And it does take a lot of balancing and prioritizing and, sometimes, even omitting things. But, I do my best to try to fit everything in and create more than 24 hours in a day.”
For Dung, she can under- stand wanting to thank some- one who’s helped. Everything that she does in the community is about honoring and repaying those who’ve invested in her throughout her life.
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