Hawaii Literacy

Don’t miss your chance to win great prizes at our event on Tuesday, September 10th!

Prizes have been generously donated by community-focused businesses & individuals.

This annual fundraiser supports our five programs, which continue to help local keiki, adults, and families build the basic reading and writing skills they need to achieve life goals.

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Our Digital Literacy Manager, Law, presented a digital etiquette workshop for Work Hawaii. 💻 Thank you to Work Hawaii and Trang Malone for the invitation.

On Saturday our English Language Learner Manager, Law Chavez, recently organized a Christmas in July Party for ELL students and learners from the Digital Literacy program. 🎄🏖️The event provided a great opportunity for individuals to interact, especially since most had not previously met due to the classes being held virtually. 😁

This summer, the Bookmobile visited six schools in the Waipahu/Pearl City Complex. 🚎📚 The Bookmobile provided free books, read-aloud sessions, and activities for the students. It was wonderful to see both new and familiar faces, and we were touched by the sweet thank-you messages we received. 😊

Mahalo to The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation for their generous gift of $20,000 to the Bookmobile Program! This donation will help to provide keiki and their families with access to books, literacy-building activities, and educational resources and tools. 🚎📚

Mahalo to Ian and Jake from Mid-PAC for organizing a book drive for Hawaii Literacy. 🤙📚 We are so grateful to have these at our libraries and bookmobiles.

Congratulations to Rina Moefu, our Family Literacy Program Manager, on being recognized by the National Parents Union as the 2024 Rising Parent Advocate! 😄🎉

Empowering our communities with literacy. 📖💫 Click the link in our bio to watch latest segment featuring Hawaii Literacy on Business Matters.

Today is National Bookmobile Day! 🥳🚎📚 Click the link in our bio to help us raise $20,000 to power our Bookmobiles so we can expand outreach and cultivate the joy of reading in our communities. 📖😁

Happy National Bookmobile Day! 🥳 Hawaii Literacy’s Bookmobile Program began in 2001. Since then, we’ve served tens of thousands of keiki and their ‘ohana by providing access to free books and educational materials in underserved communities across Oahu and S. Kona. 🚎📚

In honor of Bookmobile Day, will you help us raise $20,000 to power our Bookmobiles so we can expand outreach and cultivate the joy of reading in communities? 😄 If you would like to support our program, click the link on our bio.

The Bookmobiles provide free access to books for keiki and their ohana at various after-school programs, affordable housing programs, transitional housing, and shelters. Staff and volunteers also facilitate read-alouds and literacy-related activities which many of the keiki enjoy. 😁✏️📚🚎

Bookmobiles are an essential tool in making reading accessible. 🚎📚Our Bookmobiles provide a wide range of books suitable for children of all ages, as well as a selection for adults to build their home libraries. We hope that there is a book on our shelves that will instill a love for reading and storytelling in everyone who visit. 📖💫

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Your gift supports our five literacy programs, allowing us to service keiki and adults with tutors, school supplies, books, and learning materials. 📚✏️

Click the link in our bio to make a contribution. No gift is too small.

Mahalo to our 13th annual sponsors and attendees! We hope you had a great time at .

Proceeds from this event will allow our five programs to continue helping keiki, adults, and families build the basic reading and writing skills they need to achieve life goals. 📚

Mahalo to for organizing a Book Drive for Hawaii Literacy 📚 and to everyone who participated! We are excited to add these books to our Bookmobiles and Family Literacy Library’s for keiki and adults to enjoy. 😄

Summer recap with the Bookmobile 🚍📚🌞 This summer, we had the opportunity to visit 12 DOE schools in the Waipahu-Pearl City Complex. The Bookmobile was able to provide free books, literacy activities, read-aloud and lessons for the students. It was great to see new and familiar faces during our visits!😃

Have you been wanting to stop by the Bookmobile? 🚍📚Visit us at the following community events this month! 😄

This summer, in addition to visiting 12 DOE elementary schools our Bookmobiles are also serving 5 Summer Fun sites along the Waiʻanae-Nanakuli Coast. ☀️

This week, staff facilitated discussions that centerered our love for our communties, our Hawaiʻi. We also taught keiki and ʻōpio the song Hawaiʻi Aloha, which was written by a man who was not born here but was able to capture and voice this sentiment. Staff brought ukuleles and invited participants to play them and learn some cords. 🎶

Mahalo to the ladies of the Executive Women International Honolulu Chapter for volunteering with us this past Saturday! Karen and Shelly graciously helped to assemble literacy activities and prepped our brand new books for distribution. 💙

In addition to books, the Bookmobile also gifts educational activities to families to enjoy at home. We believe that parents are their children's first and best teachers and that family support can help any parent, regardless of literacy level, help their child succeed. 🎉

This summer, our Honolulu-based Bookmobile will be serving 12 DOE schools in the Waipahu-Pearl City Complex. Please be sure to check our website for schedule updates.
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Today, we read “Alohasaurus” by Vera Arita. Students and teachers enjoyed it so much that they requested their own copies to check out. 🎉

The Bookmobile attended ’s Resource Fair over the weekend. We met families from Kalihi, Makiki and of course Waipahu! Not only did visitors receive free books for themselves and their keiki, but they also learned about our other programs.

During the school year, the Bookmobile is at Safe Haven every 1st & 3rd Fridays (2:30pm-3:30pm). However, our English Language Learner Program holds classes there every Wednesdays & Fridays (9am-12:30pm).

Wednesdays - for Marshallese speakers.

Fridays - for Chuukese speakers.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call (808) 778-8490.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Bookmobile will NOT be at the Hawai’i Island United Way Health Fair due to ongoing auto repairs. Hawaii Literacy staff will still be in attendance to table at the event. Limited books for keiki will be distributed. 📣

On May 27th, the Bookmobile will be at the West Oahu Christian Church Resource Fair from 10am-3pm. 📚

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Bookmobile will NOT be at the Hawai’i Island United Way Health Fair due to ongoing auto repairs. Hawaii Literacy staff will still be in attendance to table at the event. Limited books for keiki will be distributed. 📣

We are seeking a caring and reliable person who is interested in summer part-time work with the Bookmobile Program from June 1-July 31, 2023. Current service routes include sites in Waipahu, Pearl City, Ewa and Honolulu - Monday to Friday.

Hours will range from 15-18 hrs per week. We are seeking someone that has availability Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 3:30pm on select days.

Were you at the Filipino Fiesta at this weekend? Unfortunately, our Bookmobile team was not able to return this year BUT we did drop off 160 brand new children’s books to be distributed at the event by volunteers. Salamat Fil4Kids for partnering with us!

On Saturday, the Bookmobile participated in Wahiawa’s Pineapple Festival for the very first time. We were wonderfully placed next to the stage and got to enjoy the awesome line up for entertainment. 352 keiki and adults stopped by to visit us and we were able to gift 250 books and 37 comprehension spinners to families. Mahalo for having us! 😄💙📚

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Mahalo to all of you who donated to the Bookmobile so that we could add more local titles and high interest books on our shelves. Here are some of the new books that our keiki and their ʻohana will be able to enjoy because of your generous support. 🙏🏽💙📚

Happy Asian American Heritage Month! Mahalo to all of you who donated to the Bookmobile so that we could add more local titles and high interest books on our shelves. Here are some of the new books that our keiki and their ʻohana will be able to enjoy because of your generous support. 🙏🏽💙📚

Last month, Hawaii Literacy participated and celebrated Marshallese Education Day at Ke’elikolani Middle School recognizing the amazing accomplishments of the students and the community.

Our English Language Learner Program and Family Literacy Libraries provided attendees with information about our organization and our five programs.

We had such a great time seeing familiar faces and making new connections!