Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Joins Feed The Children to Feed 400 Maryland Children and Families


Food Distribution to Be Held June 2 at 10:30 a.m.


WESTMINSTER, Md.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The office of Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and international hunger relief organization Feed The Children will be teaming up at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 2 to distribute a semi tractor-trailer full of boxes of food and personal care items to Westminster Rescue Mission (658 Lucabugh Mill Road).

The 400 families to receive this donation have been pre-identified by Hereford United Methodist Church, a Feed The Children partner agency. The boxes are designed to help supplement a family for up to one week.

“We are so thankful to Congressman Bartlett’s generosity and support of our neighbors in Maryland,” said Larry Jones, founder and president of Feed The Children. “Four hundred families will receive a week’s worth of food and personal care items today and for that, we say


‘Thank you’ to Congressman Bartlett.”

(Media note: Congressman Bartlett will not be present at the truck distribution.)

About Feed The Children
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 with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 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. Since its founding, the organization has reached out to help those in need in 118 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit:



Contacts
Feed The ChildrenRebecca Gass, 405-949-5140Public RelationsCell: 405-203-6038mailto:405-203-6038Rebecca.gass@feedthechildren.org




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