The project is through a partnership with We Are Oceana (WAO). The project provides outreach education and helps facilitate the registration of COFA citizens onto the ACA healthcare plans and insurance. StaffMaggie Serious (Chuuk)-COFA Outreach Program Coordinator
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Mark Your Calendar: A Heritage Plants and Community Day for Our COFA Micronesian Families on Hawaiʻi Island. August 30, 2025!
🌱 Grow Tree, Grow Community Project: Free Trees for Micronesian Families on Hawaiʻi Island🌴
Aloha! Sirow! Mogethin! Alii! Ran Ennim! Kaselehlie! Paingkom! Iakwe! Sign up to get Free Fruit Trees, Planting Tools, and Supplies for your family and community. We are excited to launch the Grow Tree Grow Community Project—an inspiring new initiative that brings together the U.S. Forest Service, the Kaulunani Urban Forestry Program (DLNR Hawai‘i), and Micronesians United–Big Island (501c3) to support …
No Aloha for Micronesians
Congratulations to Punahou School students, Erin Nishi and Kainoa Maruoka, for their award winning video documentary, “No Aloha for Micronesians,” focusing on the health care disparities and social injustices facing Micronesians in Hawaii. The 5-minute project which features interviews with Dr. Neal A. Palafox, MD, MPH and Dr. Seiji Yamada, MD, MPH from the John A. Burns School of Medicine, …
FSM & RMI Women Selected for A+JOJO Scholarship
MU-BI congratulates Srue Wakuk (FSM) and Pearlnalin Anien (RMI) for being selected from a strong pool of applicants to be the first recipients of the MU-BI-sponsored Dr. Joakim Peter Memorial Scholarship. Each of them will receive a $1,500 scholarship and be the first participants in the A+JOJO Scholars Program to receive leadership development and mentoring support during their college career …
Charter School Feasibility Study
The MU-BI co-sponsored research entitled, “Feasibility Study for a Micronesian Culture Based Charter School & Educational Programs,” led by our great consultancy team from UH Manoa’s College of Education’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D) program is one step toward becoming a reality. The final presentation was presented to MU-BI members at the Pacific Islander Student Center at UH Hilo on November …
COFA Community Health Fest-2018
Click on the link: 2018 HealthFest Day
- When: 11/17/18
- Where: 200 Kawili St. @ UH-Hilo Nursing School building: Room UCB 207