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Kaukau 4 Keiki helping Maui families
By Staff | Jul 9, 2021 A recent University of Hawaii study found that nearly half of Hawaii families with children reported struggling to pay for meals as of March 2021, with an estimated 54,700 children facing hunger. According to Feeding America and the Maui Food Bank, one of every five children is food insecure in Maui County. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state Department of Education, Kaukau 4 Keiki was created to address the gap in food access for needy students who are unable to access the DOE’s summer Grab and Go Meals distribution sites due to lack of transportation or family/work schedule.
Want Hawaii To Be Less Dependent On Imported Food? Change Your Diet - Honolulu Civil Beat
Want Hawaii To Be Less Dependent On Imported Food? Change Your Diet
Hawaii will never be a big producer of wheat or rice, but there are plenty of homegrown alternatives.
The first time Dana Shapiro cooked breadfruit, she wasn’t terribly impressed.
Shapiro bought one of the hard, football-sized fruits at a farmers market on Kauai, left it out overnight on her kitchen counter, and was surprised to find it soft and mushy the next day. To salvage the fruit, she baked it with butter and brown sugar and served it with ice cream.
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Affordable housing project Kalama Kai in Kihei is pictured during a blessing ceremony in 2019. Critics had worried that a bill proposed by the Maui County Council to increase affordable housing requirements for fast-track projects would make it more difficult for developers to build homes. On Friday, the bill died after the Maui County Council was unable to get enough votes to override the mayorâs veto. â The Maui News / COLLEEN UECHI photo
A much-debated bill to require fast-track housing projects to offer more affordable housing died on Friday as the Maui County Council failed to garner enough votes to override Mayor Michael Victorino’s veto.