LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Fred Jordan
Missions and Foot Locker are continuing their partnership to
provide nearly 5,000 underprivileged children with new shoes and
socks in Los Angeles. Additional
donations include clothing, backpacks, school supplies, haircuts
and In–N-Out Burgers. This year's annual giveaway is being held
today beginning at 9:00 a.m. PT at
the Fred Jordan Missions, located at 445 Towne Avenue.
Skid Row will be transformed into an outdoor mall for the day;
the first destination being a huge Foot Locker store. Dozens of
Foot Locker associates – dressed in their iconic black and white
striped uniforms – will measure each child for new shoes. Fred
Jordan Missions' unique 29-year partnership with Foot Locker has
supplied more than 100,000 children with new athletic shoes and
socks over the years.
Volunteers from the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department, corporations, churches and
schools will escort the children to tables piled high with donated
gifts and hygiene kits. In-N-Out Burger will bring their signature
red and white food trucks to serve the children and their parents a
delicious burger hot-off-the-grill, followed by a visit to
Paul Mitchell's tent, where stylists
will cut and style each child's hair. On-air personalities from
Real 92-3, LA's home for Hip Hop, will provide music and
entertainment for the event.
Fred Jordan Missions, http://www.fjm.org, open 365 days a year,
has fed hundreds of thousands of hungry people and provided
assistance to impoverished individuals and families since 1944. The
Mission is a non-profit, faith-based and educational relief
organization that focuses on education, job training, and
self-reliance.
Foot Locker
Foot Locker is part of Foot Locker, Inc.,
a specialty athletic retailer that operates more than 3,350 stores
in 23 countries in North America,
Europe, Australia, and New
Zealand. Through its Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker,
Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports,
Footaction, SIX:02, Runners Point, and Sidestep retail stores, as
well as its direct-to-customer channels, including, footlocker.com,
eastbay.com and six02.com, the Company is a leading provider of
athletic footwear and apparel.
Additional information may be found
at footlocker.com | Twitter: @footlocker |
Instagram: @footlocker | YouTube:
youtube.com/footlocker |
Blog: unlocked.footlocker.com |
Facebook: facebook.com/footlocker
Other sponsors include: In-N-Out Burger, Paul Mitchell Schools, Shelter Partnership, Vera
R. Campbell, Knit Works,
John Paul Mitchell Hair Care,
USC School of Dentistry, Shelter
Partnership Los Angeles, Children's Hunger Fund, Edgewood Press, Olive Hill Group LLC and Feed
the Children.
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