The mission of the organization is to FEED the hungry in hawaii county while attending to the ROOT causes of this critical social problem. The food basket accomplishes its mission by preventing the waste of ALL edible food in hawaii county, feeding the hungry with this food, educating the community about local hunger and what CAN be DONE to solve this social problem, and collaborating with organizations of partnering missions to eradicate the ROOT of hunger and other social ILLS: poverty.