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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.