Media Release: Hawaii Literacy is is participating in the Summer Food Service Program in partnership with Lanakila Pacific
Family Literacy Libraries is serving summer meals for keiki at Towers of Kuhio Park.
MEDIA RELEASE
5/21/2021
MEDIA CONTACT
A. Truong
Hawaii Literacy (808) 537-6706
info@hawaiiliteracy.org
Hawaii Literacy, Inc. is participating in the Summer Food Service Program in partnership with Lanakila Pacific. Meals will be provided to children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. This will be an open restricted site, with 50 meals being served to youth aged 0-18 each day of service. Meals will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis at the sites and times as follows:
Mayor Wright Homes Family Literacy Library
566 N. Kukui Street, Building 25A
June 8-July 30, 2021 | Tuesdays-Fridays
11:30am-12:30pm *
To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:
(1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or
(3) email: program.intake@usda.gov
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
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