Hawaiʻi's high poverty rate means ensuring more students have access to healthy meals is imperative.

Fewer than 40 low-income children in Hawaiʻi ate school breakfast for every 100 that received free or reduced-price school lunch last year.

Fewer than 4 in 10 low-income students who eat school lunch are also eating school breakfast in our state.

Two or three jobs are not enough to provide financial stability for many local families. How can we create CHANGE?

Nutrition incentive programs like SNAP help stretch budgets and put good food on tables.

Under the ʻĀina Pono initiative, schools are serving nutritious meals using locally sourced ingredients.

Low participation in summer meal programs robs the state of more than a million dollars a month in federal reimbursements for the meals.

While the Department of Education provides meals on summer school campuses, other efforts are afoot to deliver food to non-school venues.

A new report by the Food Research & Action Center shows Hawaiʻi near the bottom in terms of serving an after-school supper to low-income students.

Research shows that when students eat school breakfast they have lower rates of obesity and improved attendance, behavior and grades.