While the rest of us were just getting upset and infuriated when we heard about the school district in Rhode Island that was serving sun butter and jelly sandwiches to kids who had overdue school lunch accounts, someone stepped up to do something about it.Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO of Chobani yogurt didn’t like the idea of little kids getting a cold jelly sandwich either, so he donated $77,000 to cover the school lunch debts of kids in the Warwick Public School district so they can once again eat a hot lunch.
“The last thing that kids should worry about today is if there’s a warm lunch for them at school — and the shame they might feel if their classmates realize they can’t afford a school lunch,” Chobani explains in a press release. The company says they’re working “to bring attention to the national crisis of food insecurity among students.”