Every Friday during the school year, Bob Bell gets up before the sun comes up — to keep a promise.
“We haven’t missed a Friday whether it’s the pandemic or beyond,” Bell said. “We just haven’t missed a single Friday because that’s what we owe to those kids.”
Bell is the founder of Food for Thought Denver. Every Friday, he brings more than 100 volunteers together to pack food for hungry kids. He said the idea was hatched nine years ago in a bar.
“Sitting on a barstool and running into a teacher who, I’m a native from north Denver, and she’s telling me about these kids at her school at 40th and Federal whose last meal they count on is hot lunch on Friday,” Bell said.
It’s the last meal, Bell said, before those kids go hungry over the weekend because their families can’t afford enough to eat. So, every Friday before the sun comes up, he and the volunteers work to change that.
