{"id":12547,"date":"2019-09-18T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=276151"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:08","slug":"mother-of-6-with-open-door-policy-packs-100-lunches-for-hungry-kids-in-neighborhood-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mother-of-6-with-open-door-policy-packs-100-lunches-for-hungry-kids-in-neighborhood-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Of 6 With \u2018Open-Door Policy\u2019 Packs 100 Lunches For Hungry Kids In Neighborhood Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Mother Teresa said, \u201cI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">It\u2019s a quote that has become Champale Anderson\u2019s life motto.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">For the past five years, Champale has been on a daily mission to feed the underprivileged children in her community of North St. Louis.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Champale, a health care provider and mother of six, noticed the kids in her neighborhood were always hungry after school. Not one to stand by and watch these kids struggle, she came up with an incredible \u2014 and incredibly selfless \u2014 idea.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">With her \u201cChamp\u2019s Teardrops\u201d program, Champale has enacted an open-door policy: kids can knock on her door before and after school to retrieve one of the 100-plus lunch bags she prepares.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cThey get off the bus and they just take off running, \u2019cause they never know what I have in the bag. I switch it up. Sometimes I give them special treats, for my special babies,\u201d she said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276154\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-champs-teardrops-lunches\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-large wp-image-276154 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freelunch-1200x627.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freelunch.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freelunch-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freelunch-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freelunch-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freelunch-1000x523.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/FOX 2 St. Louis<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Now she\u2019s asking for help to keep her mission going. She pays for these lunches herself, and wants to expand to other areas.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cMy goal is \u2026 to go to different neighborhoods and give out bags,\u201d Anderson said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Her goal is resonating with a lot of people. At the time of this posting, she has shattered her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/1qlk90119c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe goal<\/a> of $1,500 and raised almost $60,000!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Learn more about what this incredible woman is doing for her community in this video.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-champs-teardrops-lunches\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Teresa said, \u201cI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.\u201dIt\u2019s a quote that has become Champale Anderson\u2019s life motto.For the past five years, Champale has been on a daily mission to feed the underprivileged children in her community of North St. Louis.Champale, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45739,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions\/45739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}