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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 15, 2009
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dolores Quinn Kitchin
Public Relations
Children International
To page: (816) 942-2000
Mobile: (816) 718-0711 |
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Children International and the United Nations Stand Up & Take Action to Help Poverty
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 15, 2009) Children International joins the United Nations' campaign, “Stand Up & Take Action,” against poverty one child at a time!
The U.S.-based humanitarian organization, which helps poor children around the world, invites you to observe the fourth annual “Stand Up & Take Action” event October 16-18 by supporting the United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals to end hunger and poverty.
Nearly 300,000 Children International contributors have stood up and taken action every month by pledging their constant financial and emotional support of one child living in desperate poverty. In 2008, 116 million people took part in Stand Up & Take Action events around the world.
In response to the global food crisis and skyrocketing food prices, Children International has established a new Lifeline Food Program in 2008, which provides badly-needed food to poor children and their families whose constant fight against poverty leaves them hungry and malnourished. The Lifeline Food Program provides vitamins, enriched food and nutrition education to children and their parents in local community centers in 11 countries around the world. In the first half of this year, Children International provided food and nutrients to more than 17,000 children through their nutritional rehabilitation program.
This year, millions of participants plan to commemorate the event by organizing tree-plantings, music vigils and blood drives.
Children International’s President and CEO Jim Cook said, “Children International works every day to support the United Nations’ goals to end global poverty by lifting poor children out of crushing poverty. By partnering with Stand Up & Take Action, we will make a difference in the lives of poor children around the world.”
To learn more about how to help relieve poverty one child at a time, visit Children International.
To learn more about other events taking place around the world, visit Stand Against Poverty.
About Children International:
Established in 1936, Children International is a nonprofit organization with its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. Children International’s programs benefit more than 325,000 sponsored children and their families in 11 countries around the world including Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Zambia, Honduras, India, the Philippines and the United States. For more information about Children International, visit http://www.children.org.
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