Truth Theory: [2] One of the issues with the coronavirus-enforced lockdown is that school children are no longer getting access to free meals.
[3] For many kids around the world from impoverished families, free school meals were vital to their daily nutrition.
[4] In the English town of Grimsby, 34 percent of children are living in poverty, and 41 percent of children are on free school meal programs.
[5] That’s why the work being done by Zane Powles, assistant headteacher at Western Primary School in Grimsby, is so important. [6] The former soldier is hauling around a huge rucksack packed with school lunches and weighing over 18 kilograms to children in need during lockdown.
[7] He visits 78 children each day on his five mile journey through northeast Lincolnshire.
[8] Headteacher Kim Leach and another teacher are delivering a further 25 meals by car to children who stay a bit further out.
“It’s a big team effort for sure. I look like I’m doing the donkey work, but it really isn’t just me,” Powles said.