400 Children and Families Will Receive Free Food and Personal Care Items

Orlando, Fla. (March 31, 2008) Orlando Magic Forward Pat Garrity and the Orlando Magic is teaming with international hunger relief organization Feed The Children to provide 400 Orlando families with boxes of food and personal care items on Wednesday, April 2 at the Downtown Recreation Center.

Orlando Community & Youth Trust, Inc. is a Feed The Children partner agency and has pre-identified all 400 families who will each receive a 25 pound box of food and a box of personal care items.

“We are so happy to be able to get the chance to work with Pat Garrity,” said Larry Jones, president and co-founder of Feed The Children. “To growing boys across the country, Pat is a role model and what better way to set a great example than by helping hundreds of families. We thank Pat for his support and for working with us to help change the lives of hundreds of families today.”

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.