Annual Mother's Day Banquet for Poor Mothers on Skid Row

LOS ANGELES, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- On this Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11, from 10:30am - 1:00pm, a miraculous power will be unleashed on Skid Row at Fred Jordan Mission. That power is a simple thing called "love," 2,000 impoverished and struggling mothers and their families from Skid Row and the inner city will be touched by this love as it is transmitted by random acts of kindness from strangers. Volunteers who were once strangers to these forgotten mothers will honor and serve them a special sit-down Mother's Day Banquet they will never forget. The Banquet will be served at the Fred Jordan located at 445 Towne Avenue in Los Angeles.

These acts of kindness will transform lives and renew the crushed spirits of abandoned and abused women. Mother's Day is the biggest restaurant day in the nation, yet since these mothers in the inner-city struggle simply to feed their children from day to day, it's a cinch they can't take their children to a restaurant. So once again this year Fred Jordan Missions will treat these mothers and their families to a specially prepared sit-down banquet made just for them. Without these acts of kindness, these needy women would have nowhere to go for Mother's Day. There will also be gifts for each mother when she leaves the banquet.

Nearly 40% of the nation's homeless are mothers with young children and that number keeps rising. Come see what it's like to be a mother who's been stripped of her dignity and still responsible for young children living on Skid Row and in the inner city. Hear how your viewers, listeners and readers can make a real difference. Witness first-hand hundreds of poor and hurting women being given more than gifts and flowers just for them, but given back their dignity.

The Mission has fed, clothed and sheltered our community's neediest citizens since 1944. Throughout the year the Mission feeds hundreds of hungry people every day and with the assistance of compassionate donors, volunteers and staff, builds schools, orphanages and hospitals around the world, distributes food and clothing to the homeless, and makes every holiday special for poor families. We bring badly needed food and clothing to crime-ridden inner cities and provide nutritious meals and after-school education for at- risk children.

The Mission is a non-profit, faith-based, educational and relief organization meeting the needs of hungry, homeless and impoverished people, especially children and families in the inner cities of America and around the world.

Source: Fred Jordan Mission

CONTACT: Suzanna Choi, +1-949-254-8080, for Fred Jordan Mission

Web site: http://www.fjm.org/

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