"In North Carolina's Outer Banks, Micah Iverson, a project manager and musician, said he recently dropped off groceries for a single mother of four children in his community. The experience gave him a new perspective.
"'I've never bought baby diapers before,' he said. 'They're very expensive, in case you didn't know.'
Iverson paid for the woman's groceries using a $300 gift card that he won at a trivia game. The night that he went to unload the bags into the woman's car, Iverson said they both were holding back tears.
' She kind of stopped me at the end and was like, 'I really didn't know what I was gonna do, so thank you,'' he said.
Although his gift card only lasted for one grocery trip, Iverson said he plans to check in and help out with groceries in a few weeks if SNAP remains stalled.
'We'll do this just until something changes,' he said."
~ Juliana Kim
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/01/nx-s1-5591497/snap-benefits-shutdown-grocery-buddy-help
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