Paul Waber Continues His Parents’ Hunger-Relief Legacy

For Paul Waber of Natick, volunteering at The Greater Boston Food Bank is a way of honoring his parents’ legacy.

In the mid-1960s, his mother, a kindergarten teacher, had students in her classroom who didn’t eat breakfast. Waber’s father went to the principal of the school and offered to personally fund breakfast for all the kids, later setting up a non-profit that provided breakfast to 15 schools in the Philadelphia area.

“In my small way, I wanted to follow my father’s lead, and volunteering at GBFB has allowed me to do that,” Paul said as he accepted a Volunteer of the Year Award from GBFB.

A retired math teacher, Paul moved to the Boston area to be closer to his two sons and grandchildren. He volunteers every Tuesday morning to pack Family Meal Boxes. “What
we do—what you do—is really important,” he says, adding, “No one should be hungry. Everyone should be able to have enough food.”

“In my small way, I wanted to follow my father’s lead,
and volunteering at GBFB has allowed me to do that.”