Housing as the Foundation of Health “[Housing is] almost like the baseline of health …you can’t talk about anything without having a safe place to…
“We’re definitely not used to that in our culture, in our community, all these types of good resources aren’t really shared with us… So we’re…
The Motivating Action Leadership Opportunity (MALO) Community Health Workers (CHWs) are a small but mighty group of leaders serving the Tongan American community in the…
“Mental health is a big issue in our culture, but it’s not addressed. It’s kind of just swept under the rug, and you’re told: Oh,…
Tākanga ‘enau fohé Mates at their oars; perhaps, their oars are mates Tākanga ‘enau fohé describes the rowing of kalia (double-hulled canoe), in which the…
As the only all-Tongan-speaking community health worker (CHW) team in California, the 10 MALO CHWs have promoted the health and wellbeing of their community with…
Introduction In 2020, Health Bridges, a student-led organization at the Claremont Colleges, partnered with MALO to support its health programming. Throughout the last three years,…