Rolesville Elementary School sits empty after orders to close all schools were issued to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. However, many students rely on free or reduced price lunches. | By Mkrpowers
Rolesville Elementary School sits empty after orders to close all schools were issued to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. However, many students rely on free or reduced price lunches. | By Mkrpowers
Four Rolesville area schools saw that many students and their families were going hungry during the coronavirus emergency, so they collected five truckloads of food to distribute.
More than 50,000 Wake County students depend on free or reduced prices for lunch, WTVD reported in March. Closing schools to curb the spread of COVID-19 puts these students at risk of going hungry.
"It's really tough; a lot of meals that they get are at the schools on a daily basis, that's why I got up and did something," Sherwood Bobbit, a donor, told WTVD.
The joint food drive lasted three hours. They plan to hand-deliver the donated food.
School officials started getting contacted by at-risk families immediately after seeing it on TV.
Rolesville Middle School Principal Thaddeus Sherman told WTVD a mother of five children emailed him as soon as she saw it on the news.
“So to be able to say yes, we got you taken care of, that's what this is all about," Sherman said to WTVD.
The middle school runs a food pantry that serves Wake County.
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