Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Janzen to Assist Feed The Children

FEED THE CHILDREN EMERGENCY CARAVAN TO HELP 400 FAMILIES IN ORLANDO
U.S. Champion Lee Janzen to Host Event

Orlando, FL (March 15, 2010) – Feed The Children and two-time U.S. Open Golf Champion Lee Janzen will distribute a semi tractor-trailer full of food and personal care items to help 400 Orlando families First Baptist Church of Orlando (3000 S. John Young Parkway) beginning at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24.

The distribution is the latest stop on Feed The Children’s Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan, which has helped more than 40,000 families across the country in cities that have been affected by the nation’s economic downturn. Feed The Children is planning similar distributions in more than 20 major American cities this year.

Feed The Children partner agency, First Baptist Church of Orlando, pre-identified the 400 recipient families and they will be on hand with volunteers to distribute the supplies. Each family will receive a 25-pound box of food and a 10-pound box of personal care items, along with Avon products. The boxes are designed to help a family for up to one week.

“There are many families struggling in Orlando and throughout Florida during this time of economic hardship,” said Feed The Children Spokesperson Tony Sellars. “We are extremely grateful for Lee Janzen for partnering with Feed The Children to help serve the community.”

Florida families are struggling during these tough economic times. Currently, Florida has the seventh-highest rate of unemployment in the country – more than twice the rate for January 2008, just two years prior. In fact, unemployment in Florida has been in the double-digits since May of 2009. Nearly one in every eight persons in the state lives in poverty, including 18.3 percent of all children. Shockingly, children make up nearly one-third of all Floridians who live in poverty.

Janzen has won eight times on the PGA Tour, most notably the 1993 and 1998 U.S. Open. In 1993, Janzen defeated Payne Stewart at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, en route to tying the 72-hole U.S. Open scoring record of 8-under par. Five years later, Janzen again bested Stewart to win his second U.S. Open, this time at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

About Feed The Children
Founded in 1979, 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 2008, Feed The Children distributed more than 133 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing more than 760,000 meals each day. Since its founding, the organization has reached out to help those in need in 119 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit www.feedthechildren.org.

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