Easter Bunny & Volunteers Prepare 700 Easter Baskets Filled With Toys And Candy For Inner City Children As Fred Jordan Missions Celebrates Easter Saturday On Skid Row

VISUALS:

Great opportunity for live feed, colorful photos and interviews with wonderful visuals of the Easter Bunny and volunteers preparing hundreds of colorful Easter Baskets.

The kitchen will be going almost 24-7 with Fred Jordan Missions staff and volunteers cooking a delicious Easter dinner for hundreds of hungry, homeless guests - - Barbecued Chicken with all the trimmings, Rice, Vegetables, Dinner Rolls, and all topped off with a homemade fruit cobbler.  When our homeless guests leave, Volunteers will distribute warm blankets, new socks, and food bags with fresh produce, and EASTER BASKETS for all the CHILDREN. 

Since 1944, the Fred Jordan Missions has fed millions of our City's most vulnerable citizens, i.e. the working poor, abandoned and abused mothers and children, and the chronically homeless who live on the streets. The Mission is a non-profit, faith-based, educational and relief organization.

Los Angeles is the Homeless Capital in the nation, and has the most chronically homeless people in the nation. Homelessness surged by 11% for the fourth consecutive year, bringing more tents and shantytown to our streets. Last year saw a 55% increase in homeless women, and 1 in 3 homeless people in L.A. are now women.

WHEN:

12:00noon – all evening tomorrow Friday, April 14, 2017

The special Easter Party for hundreds of poor children, women and men will begin at 11:00am on SATURDAY April 15.  At the Easter Resurrection Celebration we will serve Easter Dinner, and give away FREE Food Bags for all families

WHERE:

FRED JORDAN MISSIONS, 445 Towne Avenue, Skid Row

Los Angeles (corner of Towne and East 5^th Street)