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Author Teams Up To Help Feed The Children!
Added: (Tue Feb 24 2004)
Author Teams Up To Help Feed The Children!
Merrill, WI author, Alyice Edrich, partners with Feed The Children
Foundation to help families who struggle to make ends meet during the
last week of the month. Edrich, who wrote a workbook to help parents
get a handle on their finances, agrees to donate $5 from the sale of
each "Build Upon A Firm Foundation" electronic book sold through her
online parenting publication, The Dabbling Mum
(http://thedabblingmum.com), to Feed The Children's Child-A-Week
Program.
"One person can make a difference," explains Edrich. "Often, we read
about superstars like the Oak Ridge Boys or Kathy Ireland reaching
out and making a difference through large contributions and think our
small contributions won't matter, let alone make a difference. But
the truth is that small contributions do matter. They add up."
Edrich grew up in Southern California where her single mother often
went without eating so that she and her younger sister could have a
nice dinner. "I never knew my mom was sacrificing her meals for us,"
says Edrich. "I just thought she was trying to lose weight. No
parent should have to starve so that their children can eat and no
child should have to go to bed hungry."
As a mother of two children, ages 9 and 13, and the wife of a full-
time college student, Edrich understands the struggles of stretching
a dollar and trying to put together a full meal during the last week
of every month. "We've been fortunate," says Edrich. "But there are
many families out there that don't have anything left in the
cupboards to make a meal with, let alone a side-dish. It's my hope
that by offering some of the proceeds from the sale of my finance e-
book to Feed The Children I will be educating parents who don't know
about the program to either call for help or call to become a
sponsor."
Information on Organizations:
The Dabbling Mum™ is a national online publication designed to help
the BUSY Parent learn to balance life, family, and business, or order
wonderful e-books! It may be found by logging on at
http://thedabblingmum.com.
Feed The Children's Child-A-Week program
(http://www.feedthechildren.org) is part of the Feed The Children
organization. A non-profit, Christian organization designed to help
families both locally and internationally with food, medical
assistance, and spiritual renewing.