Every single school day, Champale Anderson puts bag lunches on a table outside of her home.

The 48-year-old mother of six has become a pillar in her St. Louis neighborhood. Every weekday, kids from her neighborhood come flocking to her yard to simply get something to eat.

“Sometimes kids get a bag and come back to my house around 7 p.m. because that may be the only meal they have during the day,” Anderson told “Good Morning America.” “They ask for another bag and I say, ‘Of course.’”

Anderson, whose own children range from age 8 to 25, has been feeding the local children for over 5 years.

It all started when Anderson noticed that some of her friends’ children would come over to her house and tell her that they were hungry. She also saw that there were often children begging for change outside the gas station – so she knew she had to do something.

Even though Anderson loves the area that she lives in, and even thinks it’s quite beautiful, the surrounding neighborhoods are poverty-stricken and riddled with drugs. She knew she had to step up and do something.

The loving and compassionate mom knew that her house was the perfect “home base” for feeding the kids because she’s right by the school bus stop.

After finishing work at her job with a home health care company around 12:30 pm, she rushes home to prepare her first round of meals for the high school kids who show up first.

“Those kids are waiting on me. I have to be out there because they are so excited,” she said. “They don’t know what’s going to be in the bags so they get off the bus and take off running.”

“I tell them, ‘No, we don’t need an emergency room visit tonight,’ and they laugh,” she said. “I love them.”

Anderson calls the food table outside of her house “Champ Tears Drops.” There is always a sandwich and a treat in the food bag. Sometimes it’s fruit, other times it’s chips or a cookie.

When she has the money, she’ll serve turkey or ham sandwiches, but it’s usually bologna for the meat option. But her favorite thing to serve? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

“I don’t just put on the peanut butter and then the jelly,” she said. “I mix it up with love and they love those sandwiches.”

Anderson doesn’t do it all on her own though. Her own children, as well as her friends, help her pack the bag lunches. Sometimes she’ll even throw together a to-go breakfast for kids that are running late to the bus. And if they miss the bus? Anderson has been known to drive the kids to school.

“The parents always tell me ‘thank you,’ too,” said Anderson, who also spoke to local station KTVI-TV. “I have one young lady, she doesn’t have much, but she’ll bring a jar of peanut butter or a pack of cookies, whatever she can.”

Anderson started a GoFundMe account with a goal of $1,500. Since word got out about her good deeds – she’s raised over $66,000.

The Good Samaritan’s goal is to create a recreational center that is free-of-charge to the local kids. And with all the support she’s received? It looks like that dream can be a reality.

“I didn’t have a great childhood; It was pretty rough,” Anderson said. “That made me not want any other kid to go through that.”

“I know I can’t stop [hard times], but I know I can slow it down just a little bit,” she added.

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