Kaukau 4 Keiki Partnership Providing Healthy Food to Kids in Rural Areas

The new partnerhship Kaukau 4 Keiki will give healthful foodstuff throughout the summer months for children living in rural locations of Hawaiʻi.

Weekly breakfast and lunch food kits will be supplied for children 18-and-less than in rural communities with zip codes beginning with “967″.  The weekly food kits will be offered from June 7 for Oʻahu and June 14 for neighbor islands. The system operates via July 31.

“It’s complicated for children in some locations to make it to a faculty for a one Seize-and-Go food throughout the summer time months,” reported Hawaiʻi’s 1st girl, Dawn Amano-Ige. “Through Kaukau 4 Keiki, numerous groups have come with each other to fill this require, and I want to thank all the associates.”

The Kaukau 4 Keiki Coalition of federal government, personal and local community groups features: foodstuff accessibility coordinators on O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, Maui and Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i Boy or girl Nourishment Program, Kahumana Meals Hub & Organic Farms (Oʻahu), Mālama Kaua‘i (Kaua‘i), No Kid Hungry, USDA Summer time Food items Products and services Software, Vibrant Hawaiʻi (Hawai‘i island) and Hawaiʻi Foodservice Alliance.

“It’s just a thing we understood we had to do for our keiki,” said Dexter Kishida, Foods Protection and Sustainability method manager for the Metropolis and County of Honolulu. “Every little one must have access to wholesome wholesome food stuff 12 months-round, and transportation can be a real barrier to that through the summer.”

Sharlene Wong, plan administrator for the Hawai‘i Child Nourishment System (HCNP), said the overall flexibility offered by the USDA waivers permitted the use of assets currently in location, together with the federally funded, condition-administered Summer months Foods Service Program that reimburses plan operators who serve free nutritious foods and snacks to young children and teenagers.

Households can indicator up on the web to get a meal box for their keiki at www.kaukau4keiki.org or call 2-1-1 if they do not have entry to the net. Funding is pretty confined, and applications will be approved on a initially-arrive to start with-served foundation.

Family members will be contacted by local community companies. On the specified day, corporations will deliver a box of fresh new veggies, fruits, meat and grains or will give selected choose-up several hours.

Food kits will fluctuate from island to island, as application hosts will make each hard work to assistance nearby farmers, ranchers, and foods producers with the USDA program’s food items buying pounds.

In addition to Kaukau 4 Keiki, the Office of Education’s Summer months Foods Software began nowadays for young children ages 18-and-young, irrespective of enrollment status. For a list of collaborating educational institutions, click here for more data.