Senate Bill sb2964

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2964

    By Senator Hill





    1-2361-03

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing and commending the

  3         mission and performances of "Feed the

  4         Children."

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  6         WHEREAS, "Feed the Children," a nonprofit, Christian,

  7  charitable organization, was founded to provide physical,

  8  spiritual, educational, vocational, technical, psychological,

  9  economic, and medical assistance to children, families, and

10  persons in need in the United States and internationally, and

11         WHEREAS, in its 24-year history, "Feed the Children"

12  has developed one of the world's largest private organizations

13  dedicated to feeding hungry people, last year shipping 63

14  million pounds of food and 24 million pounds of other

15  essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in

16  111 foreign countries, and supplementing 484,453 meals per day

17  worldwide, and

18         WHEREAS, "Feed the Children" consists of four

19  components: providing food to hungry people; assisting

20  undereducated and untrained people in obtaining education and

21  training for personal development and self-help; providing

22  medical care and treatment to people who are without the means

23  to obtain such care and treatment; and providing emergency

24  relief to people victimized by natural disaster, and

25         WHEREAS, a key goal of "Feed the Children" is to help

26  needy families move beyond relief assistance and become

27  productive, self-sufficient members of their communities, and

28         WHEREAS, "Feed the Children" is now providing the

29  resources needed by families of the thousands of men and women

30  who are deployed overseas for involvement in the war against

31  terrorism, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2964
    1-2361-03




 1  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 3         That the Florida Senate recognizes the invaluable

 4  humanitarian aid provided by "Feed the Children" to people all

 5  over the world, and commends the organization for the vital

 6  role it is playing in supporting the families of the thousands

 7  of men and women who are deployed overseas in the war against

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