Hawai‘i Pacific Health and Kamehameha Schools this week reaffirmed their joint commitment to improve education, health, economic stability and social well-being of students and people throughout Hawai‘i by renewing a strategic partnership.
Leaders from both organizations gathered at the Kamehameha Schools’ Kapālama campus in Honolulu to celebrate the renewal and formally sign a new memorandum of understanding.
Kamehameha Schools Chief Executive Officer Jack Wong and Hawai‘i Pacific Health President and Chief Executive Officer Ray Vara signed the memorandum just as they did when the original agreement was inked in 2019, laying the foundation of collaborative work benefiting students, families and communities statewide.
“Over the past 6 years, our partnership with Hawaiʻi Pacific Health has shown how powerful it is when health and education are aligned around community,” said Wong in a release about the partnership’s renewal. “Together we’ve opened doors for haumāna [students] to explore health careers, invested in local food entrepreneurs and grown our local food systems.”…