MEO Lanai Shopping Shuttle cancelled Tuesday December 7th
Maui Economic Opportunity’s weekly Lanai Shopping Shuttle to West Maui will be cancelled on Tuesday, Dec. 7, due to inclement weather. Expeditions Lanai Ferry notified MEO of the weather-related cancellation Friday, Dec. 3. MEO provides ground transportation on Lanai...
PBN report: MEO CEO discusses 2021 highlights, 2022 goals
Maui Economic Opportunity CEO Debbie Cabebe highlighted the work of the Being Empowered and Safe Together team and its partners who support recently released inmates reintegrate into the community in the Pacific Business News report headlined “Nonprofit Report:...
Free gift wrapping by MEO Youth Services
Free gift wrapping by Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services will be available from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 22, at MEO Family Center, 99 Mahalani St., Wailuku. A drive-thru drop-off area will be set up in the parking lot. Individuals will be...
Kahn Family pays for Holiday Food Boxes for Molokai Head Start
A Molokai family picked up the tab for 15 Holiday Food Boxes distributed Tuesday, Nov. 23, to 15 families in Maui Economic Opportunity’s Head Start preschool program in Kaunakakai. MEO usually purchases the Holiday Boxes from the Maui Food Bank for Molokai Head Start...
MEO Youth Services youths pick up 2,104 cigarette butts to mark the Great American Smokeout
A total of 2,104 cigarette butts were picked up by Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services participants at the Kahului Harbor Breakwater in conjunction with the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov. 18. The 18 youths scoured the breakwater off Kahului Beach Road...
MEO Youth Services-leaders join homeless awareness sign waving
About 25 Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services participants and agency staff held signs that read “Homelessness Affects You,” “Everyone Should Have A Home” and “Imagine a Maui Where everyone lives in a House” on Tuesday, Nov. 16, along Kaahumanu Avenue as part of a...
Great American Smokeout 2021
https://www.cancer.org/healthy/stay-away-from-tobacco/great-american-smokeout.html MEO Youth Services https://www.meoinc.org/programs-services/youth-services/underage-drinking-prevention-program/
MEO program facilitates vaccination-booster clinic for deaf
Thirteen members of the Maui deaf community received their COVID-19 booster shot and two got their first vaccine shot Monday in a vaccination event coordinated by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Maui Independent Living Center. Most of those attending the event at the...
Kathy Jimenez named MEO September Employee of the Month
Rental Assistance “Guru” Kathy Jimenez, who has been offering funding, empathy and hope to families beset with financial difficulties due to the pandemic, was named Maui Economic Opportunity’s Employee of the Month for September. “Faced with an ever-changing landscape...
MEO’s Heather Wells earns Debt Management Professional certification
Maui Economic Opportunity’s Heather Wells has been certified as a Debt Management Professional and will be available to help clients of the nonprofit agency that works with people in need to come up with plans to extricate themselves from crisis and to better manage...