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School's food bank teaches students life lessons: "This is a way to feed people with dignity"
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Updated Mar 1, 2021 7:09 PM EST
Sanger, Texas — It was an innovation born out of desperation during the coronavirus pandemic: A food bank run like a grocery store inside of a school. The organizers said it's a way to give students life lessons in retail and respect.
"This is a way to feed people with dignity. So if you think about it, if a mom, single mom, is leaving the house and tells the kids, 'I'm gonna go to the food pantry,' or, 'I'm gonna go to the grocery store.' Which one has more dignity? Going to the grocery store. That's what we have right here. A grocery store," said Paul Juarez, the executive director of First Refuge Ministries in Texas.