Staff members at a Denver elementary school sent dozens of families home with boxes full of food on Friday.
Volunteers at McMeen Elementary School packed up 70 boxes, including plenty of Thanksgiving staples.
Jean Boylan, the Community Liaison at McMeen Elementary, said the boxes they packed help fight food insecurity among the students’ families.
“Next week, families are off all week, so children are not going to have a hot lunch and a hot breakfast every day. So that’s meals at home, the families have to figure out how to fill,” she explained…