Matthew McConaughey and wife fight for children's safety in American schools

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Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila launched an initiative to help make American schools safer for children. The McConaugheys launched the Greenlights Grant Initiative Thursday to help schools take advantage of legislation aimed at providing schools with money to fund safety measures to protect students against school shootings and other violence.

President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law in June 2022, one month after the school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead May 24, 2022.The legislation included $1 billion in funding specifically for schools.

McConaughey, who grew up in Uvalde, explained during an interview on "Good Morning America" the grant writing process can be "intimidating" to schools that don't have the resources.To hire a grant writer can cost up to $50,000, which many "high-risk" schools don't have, according to the "Fool's Gold" actor.

The Greenlights Grant Initiative has been set up to give schools resources to complete grant applications. "When Camila and I went to Uvalde, the parents and the family members of the children that were killed asked for one thing: ‘Make their lives matter,’" McConaughey explained in a video shared to Instagram. "Let’s make sure that the first bill passed in 28 years to help protect all our children in schools matters."           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey) Before Biden signed the legislation, McConaughey went to Washington, D.C., to help advocate for the families and school safety.  "There is a difference between control and responsibility," the actor wrote in an op-ed published in early June 2022. "The.