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Cedar Rapids food headed to Haiti children
A truckload of food departed today from Cedar Rapids to feed children in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
The truck, filled with 58 pallets of donated cereal, oatmeal, granola bars and fruit snacks from General Mills, Quaker Oats and Ralston Foods, will be driven to Miami. It will be loaded on a ship destined for Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Outreach International will bring the food into Haiti where it will be distributed by Food for the Poor, which has staff in the country. Food For The Poor is the largest relief and development organization in the United States.
Shortly after the earthquake hit Jan. 12, representatives of Cedar Rapids food processors met to discuss short- and long-term recovery aid that Cedar Rapids could provide to Haiti. Gov. Chet Culver had asked Marcia Rogers of Cedar Rapids, a member of the Iowa Department of Economic Development Board, to determine what local breakfast food plants could provide in the way of nutrition for the children of Haiti.
A pallet of Cheerios is loaded onto a truck at Worley Warehousing on Prairie Valley Ct. SW in Cedar Rapids Tuesday, to be transported to Haiti. The truck will deliver 58 pallets of cereal, oatmeal, granola bars and fruit snacks that were donated by Quaker Oats, General Mills and Ralston Foods in efforts to help Haiti citizens in the aftermath of that country's devastating earthquake. (Julie Koehn/The Gazette)
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