John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are the ultimate humanitarian couple and John is the latest to loosen his purse strings for a
good cause. The singer donated $5000 towards a project aimed at providing meals for kids in Seattle’s public schools. The
GoFundMe project is the brainchild of Jeff Lew who wants to help erase the nearly $21,000 total school lunch debt in 99 Seattle
public schools.
Jeff was taken aback to discover John donated $5000 to the cause, the single biggest donation. On GoFundMe, Lew wrote
that his child attends one of Seattle’s public schools, where if a student owes $15 or
more for meals, schools provide a modified meal.
In some cases, when a student doesn’t have enough money for lunch, cafeteria staff take away the child’s tray of hot food
and hand the student a brown paper bag containing a cold cheese sandwich and a
small milk, according to CNN.
This practice is what some call ‘lunch- shaming’, which Lew says ‘is an awful thing and it should not be happening’.
