The yoghurt company Chobani plans to pay the school lunch debts of low-income families in a small district in the US state of Rhode Island.
The district had made headlines by announcing children who owe money would get cold sunflower butter and jam sandwiches instead of a hot meal.
The office of Warwick mayor Joseph Solomon said it is co-ordinating with Chobani to accept nearly $US50,000 ($A72,000), the amount owed by low-income families with children in Warwick Public Schools.
Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya tweeted on Thursday that as a parent, the news broke his heart. Access to nutritious food should be a right, not a privilege, he said.
Chobani was but one of the businesses and organisations that offered to donate money to the dis…
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