CNN Talks with Larry Jones, Feed the Children Founder
Larry Jones, Feed The Children President and Founder, went on the air with CNN on February 2009 to talk about the ongoing global economic recession. From Oklahoma City, the philanthropist spoke about the efforts his charity is undertaking to help fellow Americans.
CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips engaged Jones in a conversation dealing with, among others, Americans Feeding Americans, Feed The Children’s relief caravan. The caravan benefits hungry dwellers in the most economically depressed US cities. At the time of the interview, Feed The Children was preparing to visit Elkhart, Indiana, where the unemployment rate was at historic highs.
For its first food drop, Americans Feeding Americans visited Wilmington, Ohio, where the local DHL closed, rendering residents unemployed and hungry. Several other local businesses have followed suit, including Daylight Doughnut.
In the course of the interview, Phillips and Jones expressed their astonishment at how the crisis could humble otherwise citizens of a developed nation. They even compared the economic crisis to Hurricane Katrina and the 1930s Depression. Jones was particularly concerned over the delayed effects of the stimulus package.
Jones bid companies and rich individuals everywhere to donate to Feed The Children, whether in cash or in kind. He specifically vaunted his organization’s sizable transportation fleet and the transparency with which it handles other people’s money. He hoped people would take the lead of companies like Crocs, which donated thousands of shoes, or Star-Kist, which gave a truck full of canned tuna.
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