"We've Got Your Back" Toy Drive

Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“We’ve Got Your Back” Continues to Provide for Orange County Children with Food Insecurity: A Very Special Toy Drive this Holiday Season

Buena Park, Calif. (December 10, 2007) – Giving Children Hope’s Orange County based food distribution program, “We’ve Got Your Back,” is asking members of the local community to get involved in this season’s Toy Drive.

Giving Children Hope is an annual partner of “Toys for Tots,” housing thousands of toys at their Distribution Center in Buena Park, CA, and serving as a pick-up point for agencies in need of toys. The spirit of providing toys for children who are less fortunate during this holiday season was inspiration for the “We’ve Got Your Back” Toy Drive, which allows members of the community to sponsor an individual child, receiving their name, age, and special “wish list.”

“We’ve Got Your Back” is a program which provides backpacks of food for local elementary school children who have been identified as having food insecurity. Each child on the program is enrolled in a “Nutrition Club,” which equips them with training on healthy eating and wellness. Each Friday, a backpack of food is taken home and returned on the following Monday. As most of these children rely on school lunches as their only meals of the day, “We’ve Got Your Back” picks up where the school days leave off.

To sponsor a “We’ve Got Your Back” child this Christmas, or to sponsor a child to receive backpacks of food throughout the year, please contact Giving Children Hope at 714-523-4454 or visit their website at www.gchope.org.

Founded in 1993, Giving Children Hope is an Orange County, California faith-based nonprofit organization engaged in domestic and international poverty alleviation through disaster relief, medical development, vocational training and advocacy.

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Giving Children Hope
www.gchope.org
8332 Commonwealth Ave.
Buena Park, CA 90621

Media Contact:
Ashley Stinson
Communications & Development Coordinator
714-523-4454
astinson@godaid.org