1,300 kupuna receive coupons for fresh food; SFMNP applications closed
All of the Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program funds have been committed for the year, applications will no longer be accepted….
Fun, food and friendship at 52nd annual Kupuna Aloha Luncheon
MEO, Inc, in partnership with the Maui County Planning and Coordinating Council, will host the 52nd Annual Kupuna Aloha…
23 youth join MEO’s overnight Kamp Kāohi on Molokai
Twenty-three Moloka‘i youth participated in games and activities that highlighted the negative impacts of alcohol, tobacco and….
MEO disburses Maui Relief TANF/HCF funds that help 4,000 people in 5 months
Monni Nash, Maui Relief TANF Program manager, helps an applicant for the program that assists those directly impacted by the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfires at Maui Economic Opportunity offices in Wailuku….
MEO offers CDL course without cost to previously incarcerated individuals
A Certified Driver’s License training course, offered at no cost to previously incarcerated Maui County residents, will be held in May by Maui Economic Opportunity.
Classes typically take about three weeks, but the….
MEO long-sleeve shirt drive for farmworkers brings in 257 shirts
A Maui Economic Opportunity-led effort to collect long-sleeve shirts for farmworkers to protect them from pesticide and heat exposure netted 257 shirts from March 24 to 31 as part of an Association of Farmworker Opportunity Program national drive….
MEO released National Dislocated Worker Grant video
Maui Economic Opportunity has released a video, which describes the National Dislocated Worker Grant that offers temporary decent paying jobs to those impacted by the wildfires….
Bishop Pahia, ‘lifeline’ for those released from jail/prison retires
Bishop Pahia has been a “lifeline” for more than a thousand inmates released from jail and prison during his 15 years with Maui Economic Opportunity’s Being Empowered and Safe Together (BEST) program….
Debbie Cabebe represented MEO at the National Community Action Washington Conference
Debbie Cabebe represented MEO at the National Community Action Washington Conference, March 12 to 15, in the nation’s capital. It was an opportunity for Community Action Agencies from across the nation to visit with U.S. House and Senate members…
2023 Annual Report: MEO helped 20,239 individuals/families
Maui Economic Opportunity assisted 20,239 individuals and families and touched 46,971 lives in the 2022-23 fiscal year, according to the recently released “Respond, Respect, Recover: Maui Economic Opportunity Annual Report 2023.”