MEO wins 5-year contract for Maui Bus ADA paratransit service
Maui Economic Opportunity continues to operate the Maui Bus Americans With Disabilities Act paratransit service after securing a $4.1 million five-year contract with the County of Maui. The paratransit system transports persons with disabilities, who are unable to use...
The National Farmworker Jobs Program team
Our National Farmworker Jobs Program team of Ui Ah Chan and Suzette Bacarro (shown) visited Kauai Nursery on July 12 and 13 to offer Worker Protection Standards, Pesticide Safety and Heat Stress Prevention trainings. About 80 workers received training at the nursery,...
MEO Board Meeting & Installation Highlights
A little late, but here are some highlights of our Board Meeting/Installation earlier this month. Mayor Richard Bissen and state Sen. Gil Keith-Agaran were speakers, and board members took their oath from retired Judge Rhonda Loo.The report also appeared on Akaku's...
MEO Lana‘i, Hana shopping shuttles canceled Tuesday & Wednesday due to Calvin
Maui Economic Opportunity is cancelling its weekly Lana‘i Shopping Shuttle on Tuesday and its weekday East Maui to Central Maui Shopping Shuttle on Tuesday and Wednesday due to turbulent weather conditions expected from storm system Calvin. Although Calvin has been...
MEO 8-passenger bus stationed in Hana, blessed
Kahu John Kahalehoe blesses a new eight-passenger MEO bus and the drivers for East Maui, including Tuks Medeiros, on Friday in Hana….
21 youth learn life financial lessons at MEO class series
Twenty-one high and middle school age youth learned the value of good credit, budgeting and the difference between credit and debit cards….
Evelyn Del Valle has come to be a Head Start Lead Teacher
Evelyn Del Valle has come from shy Spanish-speaking youngster to Head Start Lead Teacher….
MEO’s Alex Domingo completes Head Start management fellowship
Alex Domingo, MEO Early Childhood Services assistant director, receives her certificate of completion from the University of California at Los Angeles Head Start Management Fellows Program on June 30 in Los Angeles. Standing with Alex are Alfred E. Osborne Jr., faculty director of the fellows program, and Yasmine Daniel Vargas, director of the National Center on Program Management and Fiscal Operations…
MEO Head Start summer lead teacher Evelyn Del Valle greeted children and their parents
Head Start summer lead teacher Evelyn Del Valle greeted children and their parents at the door on a recent Friday morning, a few yards away from the other Head Start classroom at Luana Gardens, where she and her parents participated in the same ritual two decades ago…
27 individuals take a step toward U.S. citizenship
A total of 27 individuals were assisted in filling out their U.S. citizenship applications, an arduous process that could take as long as two hours, at a Citizenship Clinic on June 24 at Maui Economic Opportunity in Wailuku. The clinic was sponsored by MEO, Legal Aid...