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Teacher walks miles every day to deliver meals to students

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Teacher walks miles every day to deliver meals to students

LONDON -- Zane Powels is a teacher at Western Primary School who has been walking miles every day to make sure food insecure students receive a proper meal. This former queen's guard and army veteran carries a huge backpack and straps bags to himself to make the journey which can sometimes take hours so that no child goes hungry!

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