The Banks County High School boys’ basketball team helped out over the Thanksgiving break at the Get Real Ministries Grace Point sports complex. The team helped unload a transfer truck from the Feed the Children international charity.
Founded in 1979, Feed The Children is consistently ranked as one of the 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 2010, Feed The Children distributed more than 133 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally. The heart of Feed The Children's U.S. program is distributing food to families in need. To do this, we work closely with caring corporate partners that donate surplus food and other supplies, as well as with individual donors who help defray the cost of transporting the product donations.
Head Coach Mike Cleveland gets his players involved in three to four projects a year to teach the players about giving back to the community they live in.
"It's a great way for our team to grow and help in the community. Many people can be helped in our own back yard and we want to be a part of it," said Coach Cleveland.
Cleveland's team donated the time and effort of about 30 people and others from surrounding counties, schools and churches came to help unload the truck for distribution in the month of December. The truck had 23,000 lbs of food and hygiene and cleaning products to be distributed.
These supplies will be given out to 400 families through a voucher system at Grace Point Community Center. Mission teams from Georgia and Tennessee will overlook the distribution of goods.
For more information on the project contact Kelly McDuffie or Jennifer Hart at Get Real Ministries in Baldwin or call 706-776-7491.
