News Release

10th November

How Eating Breakfast Can Save Another’s Life

Fancy eating a hearty breakfast to save someone else’s life? That’s just what UK charity Feed The Children is asking people to sign up to in their ‘Eat A Breakfast – Save A Life’ appeal. Cafes, restaurants, schools, colleges, businesses and people at home are being asked to get involved by staging breakfast events on or around Tuesday 24th February 2009 to raise money for the charity’s life saving projects in developing countries and breakfast clubs in this country.

As charity chief executive officer Brian Main explains, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and we are asking people to take time out for just one meal to think about the thousands of children who need our help in this country and abroad. In the week commencing Monday, February 23rd we’d like people to run or join a breakfast event that will raise money for Feed The Children.  

The charity has a number of ideas that people can use:

• You can host a breakfast and invite friends (get items donated and then charge a small fee of say £5.00 per breakfast).
• Restaurants and cafes can donate a small percentage of the price of a special ‘Save A Life Breakfast’ on the menu to the charity, or have a collection tin on the day and ask for donations to the charity from everyone eating in the restaurant.
• If you have regular coffee mornings, get a batch of cakes or breakfast muffins donated or baked, invite your friends along and if everyone pays about £1.50 for a cup of tea or coffee and a muffin you can raise money that way.

For more ideas about the Eat a Breakfast – Save a Life Appeal or to take part, call Feed The Children now on 0118 932 0095 for more information.

Feed The Children works worldwide, as well as within the UK, to develop sustainable communities and provide food and other necessities for those in great need.  The charity concentrates aid on children suffering the affects of poverty, especially those orphaned or abandoned. The charity believes that wherever there is famine, conflict, disease or poverty, it is always the children who are most vulnerable.

Feed The Children UK began in 1989 and over the years the charity has helped millions of children and their families both at home and abroad. The charity relies on gifts from generous companies, individuals and organisations to donate the goods and financial assistance needed in order to support the various humanitarian and relief projects.