A record $1.3 million breakfast for Boston's youngest neighbours

About a thousand Bostonians sat down to breakfast this week and raised a record $1.3 million for Horizons for Homeless Children, which runs early-education classrooms for 265 young children every weekday and play spaces in family shelters across Massachusetts — pairing learning for children with support that helps their parents find work and stability. The morning also honoured Kate Barrand, who retires in February after a decade leading the organisation. More than 33,000 Massachusetts children are reported homeless in the state's schools; this is what a community deciding that number is unacceptable looks like — coffee, speeches, and a very large cheque.

SDG 4 · Quality education — Mechanism: funding & finance