When Son Keeps Asking For 2 Packed Lunches, Mother Realizes He Gives One Of Them To A Hungry Boy
Not one sandwich, but two. And to go with them, two packets of chips and two cartons of yoghurt.
For several months, Josette Duran, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico packed her son two lunches to take to school. She packs two lunches every day for her household. However, she only has one son, Dylan. So why does she go through the trouble of packing two lunches for one kid? The reason may surprise you after you read it, but you will probably also be left in tears!
“I’m telling you this is not for praise, but it’s pretty intense,” she said in a Facebook Live post. “He said, ‘No, Mum. It’s for this little boy at school, and he sits by himself, and all he eats is a fruit cup’.”
Dylan was taking one lunch for himself and the other for a friend. When Josette figured out what he was doing, she posted the conversation she had with her son on Social Media.
The mother posted that Dylan had asked her to make two lunches one day. Josette then asked him if he wasn’t getting full from his first lunch. Dylan responded that yes, he was getting full, but that the second lunch was actually for another kid. He told his mother that the young boy only brought a fruit cup for lunch every single day. He didn’t think he had enough cash to buy lunch at the school, either.
Josette ended up learning just what was going on with the little boy and his family.
She said that the truth hit close to home, as she had experienced homelessness for a while herself. She stated that she and Dylan had lived in their car before and washed up in public bathrooms. She also knew what it was like to not have enough food to eat.
She began to get into a habit of packing two lunches every single day, one for her son and one for his classmate. Soon, the mother of the little boy figured out what was going on. That is when Josette got a call from the school, asking her to come in.
According to WFNY News, the headteacher of the school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, called Ms Duran into the office after the other boy’s mother found out about the lunch.
“She says, ‘I know this isn’t much, but I just got a job, and I know you’ve been feeding my son’,” Ms Duran said. She said she could not accept the money the woman offered her.
The girls’ volleyball team Ms Duran coaches also raised more than $400 to pay her back, but instead she took that money to the cafeteria.
“We paid up all the past due accounts for all the kids who need lunch,” she said. “So now, nobody in that school owes any money, and now everyone can eat.”
Ms Duran said she felt compelled to act because she had once been in hard times herself.
If you are ready to see what happened next, watch the video below. Be sure to have the tissues ready when you watch it!
Source:apost.com, independent.co.uk
