STOCKTON, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Feed The Children) - Cash4Gold.com and three-time Grammy award winner MC Hammer are teaming up with international hunger relief organization Feed The Children to provide 400 Stockton families with boxes of food and personal care items at noon on Wednesday, April 8 at Interfaith Food Bank - His R.A.F.T. Inc (2209 E. Main). MC Hammer will be present at the distribution.
Feed The Children partner agency, Interfaith Food Bank - His R.A.F.T. Inc, has pre-identified all 400 families who will each receive a box of food and personal care items. The boxes are designed to help supplement a family for up to one week.
The event is being documented for the A&E series 'Hammertime,' that will follow MC Hammer and his family through the drama and excitement of their day to day lives. The series is set to premiere this summer.
'We are so grateful for Cash4Gold.com, MC Hammer, and Interfaith Food Bank - His R.A.F.T. Inc,' said Larry Jones, president and founder of Feed The Children. 'Four hundred Stockton families will receive food because of this generous gift of kindness. We send our most sincere 'Thank you!'
'At a time when so many people are in such great need, the team at Cash4Gold is honored to partner with our friend MC Hammer as we lend our support to the people of Stockton,' said Jeff Aronson, CEO and Co-Founder of Cash4Gold.com.
Cash4Gold.com plans to sponsor additional Feed The Children events in the Stockton area in the coming months. Hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers have received millions of dollars from Cash4Gold since its inception. MC Hammer's association with the company began earlier this year when he co-starred in Cash4Gold's popular Super Bowl commercial.
MC Hammer had an illustrious career as a rapper and dancer in the 1990s, winning three Grammy Awards. To date he has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. In addition to 'Hammertime', he is building his new social media empire, performing at concerts, appearing at speaking engagements and running his music label 'FullBlast.'
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 100 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing almost 900,000 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
www.givingisgood.org
www.larryjones.tv
www.feedthechildren.org/abandonedbabies
