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.--(Business Wire)--
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:

www.feedthechildren.org

www.larryjones.tv

www.givingisgood.org

www.feedthechildren.org/abandonedbabies

Feed The Children
Rebecca Gass, 405-949-5140
Public Relations
Cell: 405-203-6038
Rebecca.gass@feedthechildren.org

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