400 needy families receive care packages
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FLINT -- Two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen and Feed the Children hosted a food distribution in downtown Flint Tuesday afternoon.
Feed The Children and Lee Janzen remain committed to helping children in need throughout America during this economic downturn. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2009 report, Flint reported a 16.5 percent unemployment rate.
Feed The Children, working with local partner agency Orchard Children’s Services, provided 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.
"This is the Orchard Children's Center. They flag 400 families, we set a time, the families come down here. They get boxes of food and essentials. They develop a line, we have volunteers come here. They put the boxes in the cars and they take the boxes with them," said Janzen when describing the food distribution process.
“We are incredibly thankful that Lee Janzen has partnered with Feed The Children for this food distribution in Flint,” said Larry Jones, founder and president of Feed The Children. “Lee has a servant’s heart for struggling families during this difficult economic time and he is committed to reaching out to those in need during his travels on the PGA TOUR.”
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.
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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 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 118 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit www.feedthechildren.org.
