Feed the Children Event Helps Fight Childhood Hunger in Atlanta

Patch Staff

Longtime partners Feed the Children and PepsiCo, along with other corporate friends, on Thursday helped out Atlanta families in need providing them with food, essentials and fresh produce. Eight hundred families visited Compassion Atlanta, located at 1300 Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, and took home boxes containing food and basic essentials that filled two tractor-trailers.

Together, Feed the Children, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart, Avon and Georgia-Pacific provided enough supplemental food and essentials to help support a family of four for up to a week:

• 25 pounds of food
• 10 pounds of essentials
• A box of AVON products
• Frito-Lay variety packs
• Quaker and Tropicana brand products, including Quaker Oats, Quaker Chewy bars, Life Cereal and Tropicana juice
• Fresh fruit and vegetables
• Toilet paper

The event was one of many Feed the Children has planned across the country, so that instead of worrying about having enough to eat, thousands of kids can just be kids this summer.

Hunger’s roots go deep, and it hurts kids every day - in every state in the U.S. In fact, one in four Georgia households faces hunger. Only six states have higher food hardship rates.

“We believe in a world where no child goes to bed hungry -- a world in which kids can be kids and grow up wide-eyed, curious, playful, eager to learn, strong, joyful, and full of dreams,” said Kevin Hagan, Feed the Children president and CEO. “PepsiCo, its employees, and our friends at Georgia-Pacific and Walmart are not just providing food and essentials today.”

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