Every single day of the school year, gang members in New Zealand offer hundreds of sandwiches to schools in Waikato, making sure no children go hungry like they did when they were young.
In a Waikato Times video, you can see Tribal Huk gang members spreading mustard and assembling the tomatoes and ham that will feed 450-500 children in 25 schools.
Letters from children that begin “Dear sandwich makers” line the wall, attesting to the gang’s more than two years of service.
When the video and story were published in the local paper and in a popular website, Stuff.co.nz, a flood of public support and offers have followed. People volunteered to help the project, grow vegetables, send honey, avocados, eggs, books and money.
Tattooed gang members have been left speechless, including Jamie Pink their leader, “the angry man with a soft heart.”
“I wanna say thank you so much for the support. I’m not sayin’ we’re angels and that, but we’re not bad people. We didn’t expect this.”