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With school back in session, the Pahoa Boys and Girls Club now hosts over 100 kids a day. Many of them don't get much to eat at home, and the Club tries to provide them with healthy snacks.
They would greatly appreciate donations of food or money to help feed these kids.
Snack suggestions: ready-to-eat, hand-held individual servings are easiest to distribute. Fruit (got extra from your trees?), hard-boiled eggs, yogurt cups, juice, cheese sticks, carrot sticks and other ready-to-eat veggies.
Located in P#257;hoa Town at the YBA hall next to Akebono Theatre
noon to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday
808-640-1034
Their website: http://www.bgcbi.com/locations/pahoa-clubhouse.aspx
I don't work there, we've donated in the past so they called asking for help.
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Low and medium income children already qualify for free breakfast and lunch thru the schools. The parents can receive up to $330 a month for each child via EBT. If a child is hungry, the parents need to be held responsible. Continually giving these parents more handouts is not the solution.
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So you define feeding hungry kids as giving PARENTS more handouts? Do you think kids of irresponsible parents chose to have parents who don't make sure they have enough to eat?
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Mahalo, Lee M-S, for the reminder. It is a year 'round problem, and good people continue to kokua our keiki...thank you again for the reminder.
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Mahalo for posting this, Lee MS, i don't live in Puna (yet) but I was able to help right way with a donation, by calling their administator 808.961.5536.
I remember coming home after school sure I was starving, having a snack, then doing the homework. So these keiki are gonna need a snack too, so they can get their homework done.
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Aloha, Missey, and welcome. We look forward to having you as our neighbor. Mahalo for your kindness, and understanding. These keiki (kids) really need "a village"...Aloha to you and your ohana.
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quote:
Originally posted by shockwave rider
So you define feeding hungry kids as giving PARENTS more handouts? Do you think kids of irresponsible parents chose to have parents who don't make sure they have enough to eat?
We all know the EBT issue here. The more other freebies you give out, the more the parents end up with. There has to be a way to stop the irresponsible parent from starving their own children.
And to further SW's point, do you think those parents CHOSE to be in a position whereby they are struggling ?
Thanks Lee,
"There has to be a way to stop the irresponsible parent from starving their own children."
Yeah, why don't you get right on that dude. It would give you something more to do than coming here to prove what a ______ you are.
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Ok let's try to broaden our minds on this one. There are valid points coming from both sides of the argument but there needn't be any childish name calling. There are families out there that struggle to meet ends and the kids wind up going hungry. It's a sad situation where maybe some donated food can help a child fill his or her belly, but donated money needs to be second guessed unless you can be sure it's going to be used to buy food for the hungry.
On the flip side: I can only speculate here but I'm willing to bet that at LEAST 90% of those kids come from a family where there is nobody that puts the child's hunger as priority on their life list. I've seen it way too often. They have 4 kids and one on the way, a car that never works right, a shanty of a dwelling for a home and every month that they get their ebt money it gets spent on ice and other drugs. Worse yet, when they get their ebt foodstamps they give the card to relatives or others who in turn give them cash for use of all or most of the card. I believe that is the kind of family shockwave was referring to.
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You might be over thinking what I meant. Irresponsible parents can span a vast spectrum, but no kid on the planet gets to choose their parents, or the circumstances by which they end up at the Boys and Girls club after school with no snack from home. It doesn't really matter why, if kids are hungry they need to be fed by adults, ideally their families, but if not, by the community as a whole. Lots of parents are broke due to their own bad choices, but the kids got no vote in the matter. I was astounded that the poor choices by adults was given as a reason to not feed kids.
If someone wants to support the cause, do so, if you don't want to, don't, but letting kids go hungry isn't going to change the adults' behavior, it just makes the kids cranky, unable to concentrate, and more likely to fall into negative behaviors because they are hungry.
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