Teacher Raises $106K, Spends It All On Food To Ensure Students Don't Go Hungry During Christmas

Turquoise LeJeune Parker is a teacher at Lakewood Elementary School in Durham, NC. Every year she hosts a fundraiser for needy students. This year she raised a whopping $106,000.

"Amazing, speechless. It leaves me speechless," Parker told ABC7. "I've cried a little bit today. I cry a little bit every day."

Parker and her small army of volunteers took the cash to their local Costco to buy non-perishable groceries for over 5,100 students from a dozen Durham public schools whose families could go hungry over the holiday break.

"Two weeks is a long time to be out of school without lunch or breakfast at school. Three meals. Children eat a lot. Food is expensive," Parker said.