Boy, 14, vows to eliminate $18,000 of one district’s lunch debt

Courtesy Kelly Walton(AUSTIN, Texas) — A 14-year-old has pledged to eliminate the sizable lunch debt for a district of 129 schools in Texas. Ben Hofer, an eighth-grade student at St. Andrews Episcopal School, recently raised $8,000 for a project he’s dubbed, “LunchCounts!” He plans on putting the money towards nearly $18,000 of school lunch debt …

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