Find Your Stride and Help Educate Children: 5K Walk/Run to Raise Funds for Hope For Haitians

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 25, 2013) – Hope For Haitians will be joining forces with Food For The Poor for their second annual 5K Walk/Run For Education fundraiser. This family themed event will feature live music, balloon artistry and face painting; a perfect opportunity for anyone at any fitness level to help raise awareness and funds for much needed school supplies and uniforms for children in Haiti.

The event will be on Saturday, May 11, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. at the Kane County Government Center located at 719 South Batavia Ave. in Geneva, Ill. Please visit www.HopeForHaitians.org to register your team and start your fundraising. Registration includes a T-shirt and is $25 for adults. The event is free for participants 17 and under. 
For more information on the 5K Walk/Run For Education, please contact Theresa Kegley at 1-815-847-0656 or email theresa@hopeforhaitians.org.  Registration starts at 7 a.m., the walk/run begins at 8:30 a.m. and the awards ceremony is at 10 a.m.
The course is USA Track and Field certified and timed.

For every $50 raised by participants their name will be entered into a grand drawing for two tickets to a White Sox game. Participants who raise $250 also will be entered into a drawing that includes gift cards, gift baskets and many more wonderful prizes.

Event sponsors include: Lou Bachrodt Chevrolet, Volkswagen and BMW, Paddle & Trail, Kane County Chronicle, S&S Activewear, Dr. Dickens, Mason and Kissel Dentistry, Dick Ponds Athletics, Fresh Market, Kohl’s, Savant, Eggar Insurance Agency, Inc, and St. Charles Bank and Trust.

Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of the hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America.
This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.

Children in Haiti to benefit from inaugural 5K Walk/Run For Education

Close to 300 runners and walkers got up at the crack of dawn and lined the streets near the Kane County Government Center in Geneva, Ill., on May 12 to participate in the inaugural Hope For Haitians 5K Walk/Run For Education fundraiser.

“Most people do not realize that an education in the Third World is not free. If a child’s parent doesn’t have the money for tuition, the uniform, or the school supplies – then there’s no school for that child,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “We‘re very happy the inaugural 5K Walk/Run in Geneva, Ill. was a success. We believe that the primary step in breaking the cycle of poverty is through education, and we thank all who were involved in making this event a successful one.”

Money raised from the 5K Walk/Run For Education fundraiser will be used to pay the school tuition of dozens of children living in the villages built by the Hope For Haitians Committee through Food For The Poor in Chastenoye and  Prolongé, Haiti.

Both “Hope Friendship Village” in Chastenoye and “Rockford Friendship Village” in Prolongé have

50 two-room homes, 50 sanitation units, artesian wells, community centers, animal-rearing and agricultural projects, solar panel lights, tilapia ponds, and feeding programs.

To make a secure online donation toward the Hope For Haitians building projects in Haiti visit www.FoodForThePoor.org/rockford.

Event committee members included Joseph Altenhoff, Patrick Bachrodt, Rev. David Beauvais, Virginia Canavan, William Clancy, Michael Delany, Brian & Missy Hand, Frank Haney, Msgr. Robert Hoffman, Danny Lorden, Tom & Nancy Lorden, Bob McLaughlin, Philip Nicolosi, Patti Rangel, Peter Roche, and Andy Schultheis.

Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of the hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.  For more information, please visit www.FoodForThePoor.org.

Contact:
Wanda Wright
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.com