National nonprofit Undies for Everyone (UFE) has announced that its founder and executive director Rabbi Amy Coben Weiss has been honored as a CNN Hero. Weiss has been awarded the CNN Hero distinction for her work leading UFE and addressing the critical gap of underwear insecurity as a basic need for a child’s social and academic success. Since launching in 2012, UFE has provided over 2 million pairs of underwear to students living in poverty or crisis across 16 cities in the U.S.
