Gwinnett County high school junior Jaeleon Hawkins-Jones took action to help families affected by the pause on SNAP benefits. Motivated by a belief that citizens must support one another when leadership fails, Hawkins-Jones decided to step up and raise money for food donations.
He told THV11, “What made me decide that is because if leadership isn’t going to do it, we as citizens have to step up for each other, and I knew that if I wasn’t going to do it who was.”
The 16-year-old told Fox5 Atlanta, “When leadership fails to act, regular people like us have to step up. I partnered with the Southeast Gwinnett Co-op Ministry, which is a local nonprofit organization, to give out food boxes with essentials like rice, pasta, canned goods, cereal, peanut butter, shelf-stable milk, snacks for children, things along those lines.”…