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Super Love Sender Launches on
Target Facebook Page in Celebration
of Valentine’s Day and The Big Game
MINNEAPOLIS (February 1, 2010) – Target, which gives $3 million a week to support education, the arts, social services and volunteerism nationwide, today invites the online community and its more than 725,000 fans on Facebook ® to participate in Super Love Sender, a two-week-long giving campaign on its Facebook Page (facebook.com/Target). The campaign, which runs from January 31 through February 14, 2010, combines football and love just in time for Super Bowl XLIV and Valentine’s Day, and allows participants to choose how five national charities will receive a portion of $1 million from Target to fund educational programming.
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Salvation Army hosts
all-you-can eat chili dinner
St. Louis − Now you can assist the relief efforts in Haiti and have a great meal at the same time. The Salvation Army of O’Fallon is hosting an all-you-can-eat chili dinner Saturday, Feb. 13, from noon until 6 p.m.
For $6, guests can enjoy all-you-can-eat chili, a beverage and dessert. Proceeds from the dinner will go to support The Salvation Army’s ongoing relief efforts in Haiti. While the situation in Haiti continues to be very serious, The Salvation Army Relief Team is providing massive amounts of food, water and other relief materials to the people in Haiti.
The dinner will be at The Salvation Army Worship and Community Center on 1 William Booth Drive in O’Fallon. For more information or to make a donation, please call Captain Jesus Trejo at 314.401.8164.
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 EIGHT YEAR OLD RAISES FUNDS
FOR THE SALVATION ARMY
HAITI DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT
Jacob and his family will present a check to Major Norman Grainger at The Salvation Army at 1707 W. Chestnut Expressway for the Haiti Disaster Relief on Wednesday, January 27 at 11:30 am.
On January 14, Jacob, an eight year old boy from Ava, MO was watching a news coverage on the Haiti disaster with his mother Sarah Key. When the news was over he said to his Mother that he wanted to do something to help. Jacob came up with the idea to have a Read-a-thon at school. The children in the elementary school have a reading program called Reading Counts in which they read books and take tests over the books to earn points. Jacob thought it would be good to incorporate that into a fund raiser. He met with the principal to get permission for the fund raiser.  He set it up to get all the students involved who wanted to help. Children in first through fourth grades could ask people to sponsor them by giving a flat donation or by pledging a certain amount of money per point that the child earned reading in a week at school. The preschool and kindergarten children brought in pennies for a penny drive and the middle school and high school kids were asked to help with the fund raiser by hosting change drives. A local business heard about it and got involved by asking Jacob to speak to their employees and then pledging to match the funds their employees gave up to $1000. The school and community were very supportive and the children worked very hard to raise money for Haiti. “We are very proud of the children in our school for working hard to make a difference”, said Sarah Key . “We are also proud of Jacob for having the courage to put his idea into action,” said Sarah. Jacob was able to collect over $6,000.
Jacob researched information on The Salvation Army regarding their efforts in the Haiti disaster relief effort. He also read about The Salvation Army’s effort in Haiti for the past sixty years and that makes us feel really good about our plan to present the check to The Salvation Army’s Haiti disaster relief effort. Donations to assist in the effort can be done online at www.stl-salvationarmy.org, mail at: The Salvation Army Midland Division, Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, PO Box 21787, St. Louis, MO 63109-0787. Donors can also assist relief efforts by texting “HAITI” to 52000 on their mobile phones. The text message will automatically provide a $10 donation to disaster relief efforts in Haiti.
*Please note that your donation is for Haiti Earthquake relief*  Haiti Relief Operations Update
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: While the situation in Haiti continues to be very serious, The Salvation Army Relief Team is providing massive amounts of food, water and other relief materials to the people in Haiti.
- The team in Haiti received a shipment of 18 pallets of food, representing 213,840 meals along with 4 pallets (over 5,100 individual bottles) of water on Saturday.
- A subsequent delivery of 35 pallets of food (415,800 meals) was in route with a scheduled Sunday arrival time in Port-au-Prince. These meals were accompanied by 8 pallets of water which provided over 1300 gallon jugs of water for distribution.
- Team members were coordinating with the US Army 82nd Airborne to arrange a food delivery of over 174,000 meals to a particularly hard hit neighborhood in Port-au-Prince which had not received any major food distributions before now.
- Meetings were held and partnerships continued to be forged as The Salvation Army convened meetings in its role as Camp Managers for the approximately 20,000 displaced people now finding whatever shelter they can in the Delmas 2 neighborhood. Critically important issues being addressed is water and sanitation, the provision of medium-term shelter, various NFI’s (non-food items) including kitchen and cooking kits, etc., and, of course, regular and reliable deliveries of food. On-going medical services and the timely restoration of education programs for displaced children are also priorities.
- This weekend was also a transition time for the team as some members transitioned out of Haiti and new team members began arriving. International emergency personnel continue to provide support and assistance for our Haitian Salvation Army Officers and staff who have been working heroically and self-sacrificially ever since the earthquake.
- Medical services continued seamlessly this weekend despite the arrival of a new team of doctors, nurses and support staff to replace outgoing medical personnel.
- Massive community packaging events are being conducted (with more in the planning stage) in communities around the USA. This continues to be a critical link in the supply chain that has allowed The Salvation Army to deliver well over 1.3 million meals already and will ensure that these life-saving deliveries continue until local systems can be restored.
- Early estimates are that The Salvation Army will be required to supply over 1 million meals per week for at least the next six weeks in order to sustain displaced families until regular and sustainable UN deliveries of food can be put into place.
Monetary donations and prayer are the two most critical needs as supplies and personnel are mobilized
· The Salvation Army had raised more than $5.9 million for relief efforts.
Donations to assist in the effort can be done online at www.stl-salvationarmy.org, mail at: The Salvation Army Midland Division, Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, PO Box 21787, St. Louis, MO 63109-0787. Donors can also assist relief efforts by texting “HAITI” to 52000 on their mobile phones. The text message will automatically provide a $10 donation to disaster relief efforts in Haiti.
*Please note that your donation is for Haiti Earthquake relief*
· Even before donations are processed, The Salvation Army is committing and spending money on relief efforts in Haiti. Donations are critical now and also help ensure that the long-term needs of the Haitian people are met.
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