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tenderfoot

(8,982 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 02:33 PM Feb 2020

An 8-year-old pays off the lunch debt for his entire school by selling key chains [View all]

This is supposed to warm our hearts but no other developed nation on the planet makes kids have to do this just to eat.



An 8-year-old boy paid off the lunch debt for his entire school by selling key chains

(CNN)You may have heard of celebrities or multibillion-dollar companies donating money to cover students' lunch debt. But Keoni Ching from Vancouver, Washington, is just your normal 8-year-old who wanted to help his schoolmates.

With his handmade key chains that go for $5 each, Keoni raised $4,015 to erase the lunch debt of students from his school and six others.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/boy-pays-off-lunch-debt-trnd/index.html

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