"This just breaks my heart," Bowden told the Idaho Statesman. "I was in the wrong, but what do you do when the kid tells you that they're hungry, and they don't have any money? I handed her the tray."

"We didn't take a meal away from a child," Howell told the Idaho Statesman.

A photo with a letter to Bowden posted Dec. 19 indicates that the district fired her.

She started a GoFundMe to "fight back."

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Tracy Woodard from InTown Cares (left) and Lauren Hopper from Mercy Care organization work with residents at the Copperton Street encampment in August 2024. 
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