Heroic Teacher Walks 5 Miles Every Single Day To Deliver 40 Lbs Of Free Lunches To 78 Students (25 Pics)

Not all heroes wear capes, but some of them have huge backpacks. Assistant headteacher Zane Powles who works at Western Primary School in Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, is being hailed as a hero. He walks more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) each day to deliver free school lunches to his students.

All the food (not even counting the homework) weighs 40 pounds (18 kilograms) and Zane visits at least 78 students daily. The man is a former soldier, so he’s used to toughing it out. Zane also uses the food deliveries as the perfect chance to check in on the kids and see how they’re doing.

Meanwhile, headteacher Kim Leach and one more teacher deliver 25 additional free lunches by car to families who live further away.

Meet local hero Zane Powles from Grimsby. He delivers free school lunches to his students every single day

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Zane walks 5 miles each day and carries 40 pounds of food with him. He also checks to see if the students are doing alright

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The teacher’s selfless act quickly caught everyone’s attention

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Zane places the packed lunches on the students’ doorsteps, knocks on the door, and then waits nearby until someone picks up the food.

According to Zane, he felt humbled by the responses to his food deliveries and also revealed that a lot of the students’ parents were happy to have some form of “adult contact” when he arrives.

The teacher goes into detail about what he does in this video. Have a look

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Zane stayed humble even after being at the center of attention

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“The parents and children come to the window or the door to wave and say hello, some of the parents want to have a little chat—I think I’m the only adult contact they get to talk to some days,” he told the Independent.

“I’m usually quite a private person, so all the attention is kind of embarrassing, but we’re all just doing our job—the welfare of our students is our top priority and we’re just doing the best we can.”

Here’s another video that shows how he goes about his day

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Zane felt overwhelmed and embarrassed by all the attention he was getting

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The heroic teacher even won an award for being such an inspiration to us all

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Zane pointed out that helping kids is a team effort and that he isn’t the only one doing “the donkey work”—the other teachers are pitching in to help out the community.

“Quite a lot of the families are struggling—they don’t want to drag their kids out to the shop, some of them are scared to leave their house. So I’m 100 percent happy to help and be there for them.”

A staggering 41 percent of children who go to Western Primary School are eligible for free school meals. While End Child Poverty states that 34 percent of all Grimsby kids live in poverty.