HONOLULU — Central Pacific Bank will be collecting school supplies and monetary donations throughout the month of July at its 34 branches statewide as part of the Ready to Learn program. Administered by Helping Hands Hawai‘i, Ready to Learn provides
HONOLULU — Central Pacific Bank will be collecting school supplies and monetary donations throughout the month of July at its 34 branches statewide as part of the Ready to Learn program.
Administered by Helping Hands Hawai‘i, Ready to Learn provides more than 12,000 low-income Hawai‘i children each year with new classroom supplies at the start of the school year.
The school supplies and monetary donations collected at all Central Pacific Bank branches will remain on the respective islands. For more information, call (808) 544-0500 or 1-800-342-8422, or visit www.centralpacificbank.com.
“As families experience hardships, tasks such as purchasing school supplies become difficult and many children face returning to school without essential learning materials,” said John C. Dean, president and CEO of Central Pacific Bank. “It is our purpose to ensure that our keiki return to school with the tools needed for them to learn and excel.”
All school supply donations are welcome, including crayons, scissors, notebooks, portfolios, folder paper, erasers, No. 2 pencils, glue, calculators, rulers, composition books, and backpacks.
Or, a monetary donation of $10 will purchase one backpack filled with all the items needed to prepare a student for the new school year.
