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The Homeless Outreach and Medical Education Project will hold a bake sale Friday to raise money for the program’s mobile clinics.
The effort will help fund the vans filled with medical supplies that carry students from the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine to four shelters three times a week, according to a news release.
Donations of baked goods may be dropped off at 7 a.m. Friday in the Kulia Grill at the medical school’s Kakaako campus. The bake sale runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The HOME Project, which was launched almost seven years ago, sees approximately 30 patients a week, said Dr. Jill Omori, a family medicine professor and the mobile clinic founder.
The medical students also started a mentoring program this year for homeless teens called HYPE (Hawai‘i Youth Program for Excellence). It provides monthly sessions on various topics, including drugs, bullying, family planning/STDs and career planning, Omori said.