Bicyclist Rides in RAGBRAI to Raise Awareness About Favorite Nonprofit Food For The Poor
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 23, 2010) – Robert Doherty is an avid bicyclist and advocate for Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States.
Doherty hopes his participation in the annual RAGBRAI 2010 Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa will generate awareness about the nonprofit’s humanitarian mission in 17 countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. An expected 10,000 riders will navigate this weeklong 472-mile trail, which winds through eight cities in northern Iowa – beginning in Sioux City and ending in Dubuque.
| Date | Starting Point | Meeting Town |
| July 25: | Sioux City (Leeds, Kingsley, Washta, Quimby, Storm Lake) | Washta |
| July 26: | Storm Lake (Varina, Pocahontas, Plover, West Bend, Whittemore, Algona) | Pocahontas |
| July 27: | Algona (Wesley, Hutchins, Britt, Garner, Clear Lake) | Clear Lake |
| July 28: | Clear Lake (Swaledale, Rockwell, Cartersville, Rockford, Charles City) | Rockford |
| July 29: | Charles City (Clarksville, Parkersburg, Stout, Dike, Hudson, Waterloo) | Parkersburg |
| July 30: | Waterloo (Washburn, Gilbertville, Jubilee, Shady Grove, Rowley, Quasqueton Winthrop, Manchester) | Quasqueton |
| July 31: | Manchester (Earlville, Dyersville, Bankston, Graf, Dubuque) | Dyersville |
Food For The Poor has sent more than $100 million worth of aid to Haiti, since the 7.0 Magnitude earthquake devastated the country on Jan. 12. As the leading provider of aid to Haiti, Food For The Poor has shipped and distributed more than 845 tractor-trailer loads of relief supplies to this impoverished country since Jan. 12, including food, clean water, medicines, medical supplies, and building materials.
Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed the millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. To learn more, please visit www.foodforthepoor.org.
Contact:
Jennifer Leigh Oates
Public Relations
Food For The Poor
954-427-2222 x 6054
[email protected]