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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Heather
Allebaugh 407.246.3423
Victoria
Shade 407.246.4318
Orlando Magic and Guard J.J. Redick Host Feed The
Children in the City of Orlando
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WHAT: |
Orlando Magic
Guard J.J. Redick will be helping international
hunger relief organization Feed The Children
distribute 400 Ivey Lane families with boxes of
food and personal care items at 4 p.m. on
Tuesday, November 17 at the City of Orlando’s
Ivey Lane Recreation Site. More than 400
Parramore children and families have been
pre-selected to receive food and personal care
items. The boxes are designed to help supplement
a family for up to one week. The City of
Orlando’s Families, Parks and Recreation
Department and Orlando Community & Youth Trust,
Inc. is partnering with Orlando Magic and Feed
The Children to distribute the boxes to families
in need.
Orlando Community & Youth Trust,
Inc. is a Feed The Children partner agency and
has pre-identified all 400 families who will
each receive a 25 pound box of food and a box of
personal care items.
Founded in 1979 by
Larry and Frances Jones, Feed The Children is
consistently ranked as one of the 10 largest
international charities in the U.S., based on
private, non-government support. Feed The
Children is a Christian, international,
nonprofit relief organization that delivers
food, medicine, clothing and other necessities
to individuals, children and families who lack
these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or
natural disasters. In FY 2007, Feed The Children
distributed more than 135 million pounds of food
and other essentials to children and their
families in all 50 states and internationally,
supplementing almost 800,000 meals each day. For
more information, please visit
www.feedthechildren.org.
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WHO:
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J.J. Redick,
Orlando Magic Guard
Orlando Magic
Feed The
Children
City of Orlando’s Families, Parks
and Recreation Department
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WHEN:
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Tuesday, November
17, 2009 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
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WHERE:
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Ivey Lane Recreation Site
291 Silverton
Street
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