A man in Florida did something selfless for the entire town, and he is getting a lot of praises for his good deed.
It all started with a Facebook post when Andrew Levy discovered that many kids across the country gather a debt from not being able to pay for lunch.
He learned that $944.34 was the total lunch debt for all nine Jupiter area schools. ”I went in there and I said ‘I want to pay off the lunch debt”, he said.
Levy is a real estate agent in Palm Beach Gardens, but the majority of his business is conducted in the Jupiter area.
”These children that were in debt were going to either not eat or they would get just cheese sandwiches and I thought that’s crazy,” he said. ”I thought you know something? If for a modest sum I could make that change, I’m gonna do it.”
“Food is something that you shouldn’t have to think about. Children shouldn’t have to learn hungry,” he said.
”I even have had some clients over the past 48 hours say ‘you know something, I want to help, I want to give too,”
”Every quarter I’m going to do either a GoFundMe page or a fundraising page that can raise money every quarter so the lunch debt never accumulates,” he said.
Lunches in Palm Beach County school cafeterias cost $2.05 in elementary schools and $2.30 in middle and high schools.
”A lot of people said they’d like to help and I thought, you know what, it’s going to be too difficult to gather these people together,” Levy said. “I’m going to clear the first debt.”
”I didn’t want to just write a check and mail it in. I wanted to meet the people, I wanted to make sure every dollar I was giving them was going to the Jupiter schools,” he said.Now, Levy is planning to start an online fundraiser so that more people can easily donate throughout the year to lower the lunch debts, reported ABC Action News.
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