Rebecca Wofford gives kids the fuel to learn. A non-profit she co-founded, The Lunch Project, allows more than 5,000 Tanzanian kids to eat a hot lunch every day. Because they are fed, they have the fuel to learn. The impact is demonstrable: quite simply, test scores increase in schools with lunch programs.
Rebecca began this work in 2011. She hasn’t looked back since. As she would say, it’s been a decade of dimes to fund the fuel to learn. Through her work, she meets kids, like Shedrack Lomnyack Lariumbe, on the precipice of starvation who just need to meet life’s most basic need—hunger—before they can tackle complex problems.
What are some of the lessons Rebecca has learned from being proximate to kids like Shedrack? How does she keep those lessons present in her day-to-day Charlotte life when our perceived problems are much less consequential? Let’s start there.
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