Volunteers sought for surplus food distribution on Lanai
Maui Economic Opportunity’s Lana‘i Branch needs volunteers to assist with the monthly surplus food distribution to residents in need. The distribution at the MEO office at 1144 Ilima Ave., No. 102, usually occurs at mid-morning on the third Thursday of the month....
MEO Abilities Awareness Fair entertains, educates
Hundreds of people visited information booths, took in the entertainment and learned about acceptance of persons with disabilities at the third Maui Economic Opportunity Abilities Awareness Fair on April 30 at the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center. Put on by MEO’s Maui...
MEO at the Molokai Drug Free Movement
MEO offers information, swag at Moloka‘i Drug Free Movement event Youths tried to connect the dots with inebriation simulation goggles, picked up swag and learned about Maui Economic Opportunity services at the Moloka‘i Drug Free Movement event on Saturday, May 7, at...
Spring edition of the National Farmworker Jobs Program is out
The spring edition of the National Farmworker Jobs Program is out. The lead story is about Mahi Pono and its farming operations on Maui. MEO operates the NFJP program statewide under a federal grant....
MEO CEO Debbie Cabebe thanked Mayor Michael Victorino
MEO CEO Debbie Cabebe thanked Mayor Michael Victorino, Maui County Council, private donors and the community for supporting MEO for the past 57 years at a Community Action Month proclamation signing in the mayor’s conference room. MEO is the county’s Community Action...
MEO Board Vice President Carol Reimann
MEO Board Vice President Carol Reimann spoke about the important work of MEO in Maui County and other Community Action Agencies nationwide at a proclamation signing today in the Mayor’s Conference Room. Mayor Michael Victorino declared May Community Action Month in...
Dee Wilson named MEO Employee of the Month
Long time administrative assistant for the Head Start preschool program, Dee Wilson, who keeps the department operations flowing uninterrupted, has been named Employee of the Month. Dee joined MEO in January 2005 after working in the health care field. She was...
MEO collects 158 long sleeve shirts for farmworkers
Maui Economic Opportunity collected 158 shirts for the National Long Sleeve Shirt Drive, aimed at protecting farmworkers from pesticides and heat in the fields, from March 26 to April 2. MEO works with farmworkers and farms statewide through the National Farmworker...
MEO Youth Services takes suicide prevention class to Molokai
Maui Economic Opportunity’s Youth Services introduced its Suicide Prevention Basics Training to 50 7th-graders at Moloka‘i Middle School on April 11 and 12 in a program funded through a Maui County grant. Youth Services Director Dane Ka‘ae flew to Moloka‘i to teach...
A family night of games-dinner by MEO Youth Services
Fourteen families – 65 individuals in total – joined Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services ‘Ohana Night and enjoyed a meal, took a family photo and played Outburst on March 24 at MEO in Wailuku. Mary Leyva, the Maui County Tobacco-Free coordinator, also spoke to...