Steve Green pays school lunch debt for all students
Hooksett Kind is a Facebook group that was created seven months ago by Hooksett resident Chet DuPont. The group focuses on spreading love and kindness throughout the town of Hooksett and beyond.
Recently the Hooksett Kind community was made aware of the fact that many students within the Hooksett school system were carrying varying degrees of lunch debt. Much of this was due to financial strains on many families in our town who did not meet the criteria for free or subsidized lunch programs. DuPont discovered that the total amount of school lunch debt was over $25,000.
A financial appeal was put out to the Kindness Warriors within the group in the hopes of reducing or eliminating that financial burden on these families. As the group raised funds, it decided to
broaden the efforts by reaching out to our entire community. As they educated citizens to this need, donations both small and large started to accumulate. In addition to individual donations, local business owner Steve Green of Green’s Marine also made a very large and generous donation toward this cause.
The fundraising effort was successful beyond imagination and in just under three weeks all the lunch debt was paid off in full. An extra $500 was even collected to be applied to future debt. All these funds were formally presented to, and accepted by, the members of the Hooksett School Board.
“The Hooksett Kind group sincerely thanks all its members, non-members and Steve Green for their contributions,” said Dupont. “Together we demonstrated what is possible when a community is alerted to a need and is motivated to show kindness and compassion to others in their town. Our town residents accomplished what this Facebook group strives for, which is to be #HooksettKind both all day and every day.”
