A lei is draped during an opening celebration by Noʻel Tagab-Cruz, director of Hawaiʻi Life Styles Hawaiʻi Community College has announced the opening of the Kahuaola Basic Needs Center at the Manono campus in Hilo. Kahuaola, as its name references, is a student resource center that aims to build a foundation to support the basic needs of Hawaiʻi CC students. Kahua is the foundation upon which ola—life, health and well-being—blossoms. ' Hawaiʻi Community College and other higher education institutions are seeing more students struggling to meet basic needs like food and housing, which makes it difficult for them to succeed in college,' said Craig Mitchell , the coordinator of the Kahuaola Basic Needs Center.

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