Feed The Children`s Next Stop on the `Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan` is Nashville

3,600 Families to Receive Food and Supplies
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(Business Wire)--
Feed The Children`s "Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan" will make
its next stop in Nashville, Tennessee to help sustain 3,600 families.

Ten tractor-trailers filled with food and personal care items will be
distributed on Thursday, July 16. The distribution will begin following a press
conference at 2 p.m. at LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans of the NFL,
located at 1 Titans Way.

The trucks were made possible by Family, Career and Community Leaders of America
(FCCLA). FCCLA students nationwide organized fundraising drives for Feed The
Children as part of an initiative for the FCCLA 2008-2009 National Outreach
Project to raise awareness about child hunger in America. The truck distribution
is being held in conjunction with the FCCLA National Conference in Nashville.

Feed The Children, working with local partner agencies The Nashville Dream
Center, The Bridge Ministries, Iglesia Wesleyana Nueva Vida, Feed America First
and Unity of Believers, will provide a box of food and a box of personal care
items to recipients. The boxes are designed to help supplement a family for up
to one week.

"Nashville has experienced an increased unemployment rate the past few months,"
said Larry Jones, founder and president of Feed The Children. "Feed The Children
is committed to helping as many families as we possibly can throughout the
`Americans Feeding Americans Emergency Caravan`. We are so thankful to FCCLA for
their continued hard work in helping bring hope to so many struggling families."

Avon Products, Inc®. has donated gift bags filled with Avon products and gift
items to recipient families. Avon Products, Inc. has been a long time partner of
Feed The Children.

Crocs, Inc. and Soles United have donated new shoes to be distributed to
recipient families. Crocs, Inc. and Soles United are long time partners of Feed
The Children.

Nashville is the seventh of many cities on the "Americans Feeding Americans
Emergency Caravan" food distribution tour from Feed The Children.

To date, over 23,000 families have been helped by the emergency caravan. In May,
Feed The Children helped 2,000 families in Chicago, Illinois and 2,000 in
Laurinburg, North Carolina due to the unemployment rate increasing in both
cities. In April, Feed The Children delivered 4,000 food and personal care boxes
to recently laid off hotel and restaurant employees affected by the drop in
tourism in New York. Also in April, 2,000 food and personal care boxes were
delivered to residents in Greenville, Mississippi. In February, Feed The
Children delivered 13 semi tractor-trailers filled with food and personal care
items to help sustain 5,200 families in Elkhart, Indiana. The city has been hit
hard by the deteriorating RV industry. On Feb. 19, Feed The Children delivered
food and personal care items to help sustain 6,000 families in Wilmington, Ohio.
The closing of a DHL plant affected one in three families in Wilmington.

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. For more information, please visit

www.feedthechildren.org

www.givingisgood.org

www.larryjones.tv

www.feedthechildren.org/abandonedbabies

About FCCLA

FCCLA: The Ultimate Leadership Experience is a dynamic and effective national
student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address
important personal, family, work, and societal issues through Family and
Consumer Sciences Education. FCCLA has more than 220,000 members and nearly
7,000 chapters from 50 state associations and the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The organization has involved more than ten
million youth since its founding in 1945. Family, Career and Community Leaders
of America is unique among youth organizations because its programs are planned
and run by members. It is the only career and technical in-school student
organization with the family as its central focus. Participation in national
programs and chapter activities helps members become strong leaders in their
families, careers, and communities.

Feed The Children
Rebecca Gass, 405-949-5140
Cell: 405-203-6038

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