Turquoise Lejeune Parker, a teacher in Durham, North Carolina, reached out to her community and ended up raising $100,000 to purchase groceries at Costco to provide food for 5,000 students in the Durham Public Schools for the winter break. The bags, which were filled with bread, mac and cheese, beans, apple sauce, and other food staples are expected to be distributed to the students at the school. With the help of attorney T. Greg Doucette, Parker began the food drive in 2015 when a parent confided to the elementary school employee that she needed assistance, WNCT reports . "This all started with one family; one family sent me a message in 2015. This mom said we don't have anything at all, I don't have anything for my kids," Parker said. At the time, the 34-year-old librarian decided to enlist her husband, Donald Parker, to make calls to everyone in their network, asking them to buy or donate food for her class of 25 students. "It's a basic human right. We're not talking about...
