With a place to pack and Dream Center volunteers at the ready, Dufner brought his knowledge of what area kids needed and turned the group onto the food-supply chain he works with, while also making his own contributions.

“It kind of just came together right after they started talking about not having the kids go back to school after spring break and all that, and then obviously that got extended for the rest of the year,” he said. “We were already thinking about, ‘How can we help? What can we do? What are the school systems going to do?’”

Kim Hudson reached out to the superintendents at Auburn City, Opelika City and Lee County schools. And when the idea formulated, the crew jumped on board.

“Shortly after we got back from the SEC Tournament, we all got together at the Dream Center and kind of laid out a plan,” Pearl said. “We knew that there were going to be a lot more people that were going to be in need, and so we better get started right away.