HONOLULU \u2013 The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is seeking sponsor organizations on all islands to help provide children in low-income communities with free meals during the summer months. The SFSP provides nutritious meals that help children to learn, play, and grow during the summer break when many schools are not in session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schools, public agencies, churches and private nonprofit organizations may apply to be SFSP sponsors.\u00a0 Sponsoring organizations receive reimbursements for serving healthy meals and snacks at approved sites to children and teenagers, 18 years and younger.\u00a0 Sponsors are encouraged to provide educational or recreational activities. HONOLULU \u2013 The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is seeking sponsor organizations on all islands to help provide children in low-income communities with free meals during the summer months. The SFSP provides nutritious meals that help children to learn, play, and grow during the summer break when many schools are not […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":18062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"856,888,893,1022,1619,1622","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Koko-Head-El-Lunch-Cropped.jpg",927,522,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Derek Inoshita","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/author\/derek-inoshitak12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":310,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":310,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:05:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In the summer of 2025, meals were served at 150 non-HIDOE locations throughout the state, including locations at public charter schools, nonprofit organizations, preschools, churches, parks, and housing facilities. The Hawai\u02bbi State Department of Education served meals free of charge at 68 public school locations and alternative learning programs on Kaua\u02bbi, O\u02bbahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawai\u02bbi Island through its Seamless Summer Option program last summer.
Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng tr\u00ecnh dinh d\u01b0\u1ee1ng tr\u1ebb em Hawai\u02bbi (HCNP) s\u1ebd t\u1ed5 ch\u1ee9c h\u1ed9i th\u1ea3o tr\u1ef1c tuy\u1ebfn cho c\u00e1c nh\u00e0 t\u00e0i tr\u1ee3 m\u1edbi v\u00e0 c\u0169 v\u00e0o th\u00e1ng 3. Nh\u00e2n vi\u00ean ch\u1ecbu tr\u00e1ch nhi\u1ec7m qu\u1ea3n l\u00fd SFSP s\u1ebd \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c y\u00eau c\u1ea7u tham d\u1ef1.\u00a0
For more information about SFSP, contact Shaynee Moreno at the Hawai\u02bbi Child Nutrition Programs at 808-587-3600 or via email at Shaynee.Moreno@k12.hi.us<\/a>.\u00a0
USDA l\u00e0 nh\u00e0 cung c\u1ea5p v\u00e0 tuy\u1ec3n d\u1ee5ng lao \u0111\u1ed9ng b\u00ecnh \u0111\u1eb3ng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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