When rapper Ludacris visited Clark Creek Elementary School in Atlanta, he was stunned to learn how many of the students suffer from day-to-day hunger.
"Fifty percent of our students are below the poverty line, so when they are here in the building, we know they are being fed, but when they go home for the weekend, they don't always know where their next meal is going to come from," a school staff member says in the Red Nose Day USA video below.
One of these children is a 5-year-old boy named Robert. Teachers started to notice that Robert was "sick" and "exhausted" every Monday. They soon realized he was one of more than 15 million children who lives in a home with food insecurity in America. It's an issue that's plaguing communities nationwide, as we've seem from the kindhearted farmer who made it his mission to feed people.
"He's not being provided the type of food and nutrients that he needs in order to excel this early in life," Ludacris says. "There's no reason it should be like that."
Yet, Robert's mom tries her best to provide Robert and his two siblings with all she can. But every month, she has to worry about paying her rent and car payments with barely any money leftover for food. While she says it hurts not to be able to feed her hungry kids on the weekend, there hasn't been much of a solution.
Some relief is being found, however, through an incredible new initiative at the elementary school, as you'll see in the video below.
Watch, and please SHARE to bring awareness to this devastating reality affecting millions of children around the country!
