‘Life-changing’: School opens free ‘grocery store’ to help students struggling to get by
Crowe told TODAY she's been hosting pop-up grocery stores in food deserts for five years, but this is the first one in a school — and the first one that's going to be permanent, thanks to the rapper's donations.
Crowe and Madden say the store's association with the rapper — it's called"Gunna's Drip Closet and Goodr Grocery Store" — helps eradicate any shame or stigma that students might associate with taking the free items home. Crowe's organization also provided every single student with a reusable grocery bag to use when shopping at the store.
Ronald E. McNair Middle School is a Title I school, a government distinction that means it has a high number of students from low-income families.
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