Nonprofit The Third Meal Teams With Chook Chicken to Help Families in Need Dine with Dignity

Ray Roske first learned of the complexities and shame associated with students who receive federal assistance from his son’s former girlfriend, a Denver Public Schools teacher. “More than 80 percent of her first-grade class” was on the National School Lunch Program, recalls Roske, co-founder of The Third Meal, a non-profit that promotes what he calls “dining with dignity.”

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