{"id":116734,"date":"2020-04-26T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=116734"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:31:55","slug":"kapiolani-cc-community-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/26\/kapiolani-cc-community-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u2018olani <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> helps to feed hungry keiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_88155\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ZCT7gLxR3Q?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Kapi\u2018olani CC helps to feed hungry keiki\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Since 2015, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/25\/kapiolani-cc-food-truck-keiki-summer-meals\/\">helping to feed hungry children at various <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> sites<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/sfsp\/summer-food-service-program\"><abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> Department of Agriculture\u2019s Summer Food Service Program<\/a>, which ensures children who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches have access to nutritious meals and snacks when school is not in session. During June and July, the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> culinary arts program prepared 20,000 meals for hungry keiki across <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>When <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> public schools closed in March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> sprang into action and started a spring feeding program, with the assistance of existing and new partners and generous donors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_116762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116762\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"culinary students preparing food\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary students Geoffrey Yanit, right, and Anju Tsukahara.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_116759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116759\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"culinary student slicing meat\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Steven Zane, an apprentice with the American Culinary Federation.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Beginning March 16, they cooked more than 17,000 meals over the span of four weeks. During the week of April 12, the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> cafeteria cooked about 1,200 meals a day Monday through Friday. Local non-profit organizations are serving as meal site partners, who handle food pick-up and distribution of to-go meals at eight sites throughout <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We\u2019re producing meals for children who are out of school and are usually eligible for free and reduced lunch, but during this interruption, the school lunches that are available may not be offered in all the schools (or children may not be able to get there to pick these up),&rdquo; said <strong>Daniel Leung<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary arts program coordinator. &ldquo;What we feel is that at least we can provide at least one nutritious meal a day, with a kitchen that meets all the <abbr title=\"\nUnited States Department of Agriculture\">USDA<\/abbr> guidelines.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Department of Education data for the current school year shows almost 85,000 students qualify for free and reduced-price lunches.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without the community feeding program that we\u2019re doing right now, I think there\u2019s a lot of children that wouldn\u2019t have meals that we\u2019ve been able to provide,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> Culinary Arts Operations Manager <strong>John Mizokawa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Community collaboration<\/h2>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_116763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116763\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"people packing food containers\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-3-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-3.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers box the food at P\u0101lolo Valley Homes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_116760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116760\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-4.jpg\" alt=\"three children holding food containers\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kapiolani-community-meals-4-130x130.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meal participants receive the food.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>In addition to the usual rigorous food sanitation and safety measures that the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary arts program follows, COVID-19 protocols are being practiced. The <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> cafeteria staff are also working to scale up to maximum capacity of about 1,500 meals a day. It\u2019s a true community effort, with collaborators such as La Tour Bakehouse and Zippy\u2019s working to develop products for the program.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the things we try to do is work with the local suppliers,&rdquo; said Mizokawa. &ldquo;We work with farmers that are producing produce and beef and things like that, trying to utilize those products so that those farmers get some sort of income stream.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The community feeding effort has received support from Walmart Foundation, Harold K. L. Castle Foundation, the Ulupono Fund at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Foundation, the Healy Foundation, Kaiser Permanente and various individual donors. <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.uhfoundation.org\/funds\/12951804\">The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Foundation has also set up a web page for others to support the program.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With increasing unemployment, the numbers of hungry children and vulnerable community members are likely to rise dramatically. Leung says the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary arts program is committed to the community feeding effort through the summer, until the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>Mizokawa said, &ldquo;It\u2019s difficult at times, but, it is gratifying to know that we are able to make a difference.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Any requests for assistance from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> campuses should be directed to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Emergency Management Agency via the web <abbr title=\"Emergency operations center\">EOC<\/abbr> portal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary arts program is producing 1,200 meals a day to feed needy children on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[1411,1416,184,377,63,71,56],"class_list":["post-116734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-arts-program","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116734"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124581,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116734\/revisions\/124581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}