LOS ANGELES, April 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cast members of
ABC's popular primetime series "Desperate Housewives" along with
celebrity friends, gathered today on the fictional Wisteria Lane to
raise awareness about childhood hunger.
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Hosted by Dana Delany
("Kathryn Mayfair"), the Child
Hunger Ends Here Neighborhood Rally campaign, led by ConAgra Foods®
(NYSE: CAG) in partnership with Feeding America, the nation's
leading hunger relief organization, brought together Brenda Strong ("Mary
Alice Young"), Andrea Bowen
("Julie Mayer"), and Beau Mirchoff
("Danny Bolen") to draw attention to
and support for an issue that affects children throughout
the United States, in
neighborhoods that we all call home. The Desperate
Housewives' cast mates were joined by such celebrities as:
- David Arquette (Actor,
Feeding America Entertainment Council Chair)
- Chad Allen (Television,
film, and stage Actor, ex-"Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman")
- Trevor Donovan (Actor,
"90210")
- Jeremy Glazer (Actor,
"Save Me")
- Kathy Ireland
(Former-model, actress, entrepreneur, CEO, and designer of
Kathy Ireland Worldwide) and Chef Andre
Carthen (Kathy Ireland Worldwide)
- Stephanie Pratt (Reality
TV Star, "The Hills")
- Amy Paffrath (Host, E! News Now)
- Melissa Rivers (TV
Personality)
- Ashley Roberts (Dancer,
singer, and actress formerly of The Pussycat Dolls)
- Chad Rogers (Reality TV
Star, "Million Dollar Listing")
- Gretchen Rossi and
Slade Smiley (Reality TV
Stars, "The Real Housewives of the O.C.")
- Alison Sweeney (Actress
and TV Personality, "Days of Our Lives," "The Biggest Loser")
- McKenzie Westmore
(Actress, singer, producer, and entrepreneur, ex-"Passions")
- Seven Williams (Lead Singer, Whiskey Falls)
According to recent research from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, nearly one in four children in the United States doesn't know where their
next meal is coming from. Through the Child Hunger Ends Here
Neighborhood Rally campaign, individuals in communities across the
nation can help kids at risk of hunger by rallying together to
raise money, collect food, purchase products that trigger a
donation to Feeding America and raise awareness about the issue
among their community. The program's Web site —
www.childhungerendshere.com — provides more information about the
issue of child hunger and details on the number of ways to get
involved.
ConAgra Foods' Child Hunger Ends Here initiative builds on a
long-standing commitment by ConAgra Foods and the ConAgra Foods
Foundation to end child hunger, which has resulted in donations of
more than $38 million and more than
232 million pounds of food to Feeding America since 1993. The
ConAgra Foods Foundation recently committed an additional
$10 million to Feeding America over
the next five years, which is the largest donation ever made to
Feeding America specifically to fight child hunger.
ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) is one of North America's leading food companies, with
brands in 96 percent of America's households. Consumers find
Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew
National, Hunt's, Marie Callender's,
Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter
Pan, Reddi-wip and many ConAgra Foods brands in grocery,
convenience, mass merchandise and club stores. ConAgra Foods also
has a strong business-to-business presence, supplying frozen potato
and sweet potato products as well as other vegetable, spice and
grain products to a variety of well-known restaurants, foodservice
operators and commercial customers. For more information, please
visit us at www.conagrafoods.com.
Feeding America provides low-income individuals and families
with the fuel to survive and even thrive. As the nation's leading
domestic hunger-relief charity, our network members supply food to
more than 37 million Americans each year, including 14 million
children and 3 million seniors. Serving the entire United States, more than 200 member food banks
support 63,000 agencies that address hunger in all of its forms.
For more information on how you can fight hunger in your community
and across the country, visit www.feedingamerica.org. Find us on
Facebook at facebook.com/FeedingAmerica or follow our news on
Twitter at twitter.com/FeedingAmerica.
SOURCE ConAgra Foods, Inc.