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School s food bank teaches students life lessons: This is a way to feed people with dignity
Last 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.
Students in North Texas are helping to feed and clothe those in need throughout their hometown.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Linda Tutt High School Principal Anthony Love noticed that many of the students in his district fell below the poverty line and were in need of basic necessities.
Last November, the school located in Sanger opened a student-run grocery store that provides free food and supplies to people in the community.
And with financial assistance from local businesses, the principal is able to keep the store fully stocked. We re trying to spread good things and we want our kids to move on and to continue to do good for the community and for the people around them, said Principal Love.
Texas high school principal Anthony Love said he began to notice many of his students fell under the poverty line and wanted to do more to help. His way of helping provide to families in need was by creating a student-run grocery store inside his school.