The Arby’s Foundation has donated more than $200,000 to eliminate student lunch debt in four metro Atlanta school districts, it announced.
“Kids are not designed for uncertainty. Kids need to know they can expect when their next meal is going to be,” Stuart Brown, executive director of the Inspire Brands Foundation, said.
The payments are part of the charitable organization’s $1 million effort to wipe out lunch debt at more than 750 schools nationwide. The national public school meal debt is $262 million a year, with 30.4 million students who can’t afford food at school, according to the Education Data Initiative.
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