Tomorrow morning in Harlem, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and
Hasan Adams of the New Jersey Nets plan to be among the basketball stars joining 1,000 volunteers to help feed more than 10,000 families throughout the city. Two dozen 53-foot-long containers will line 138th Street in a holiday program started in 2003 by a consortium of Feed the Children, the National Basketball Players Association and Abyssinian Development Corp., a nonprofit group with ties to the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.The initiative, called “Miracle on 138th Street: Feeding 10,000” starts at 3 a.m., when volunteers start unloading groceries along 138th street and the surrounding five blocks. Distribution of 26-pound cartons of nonperishable groceries along with a box of personal-care items begins at 8 a.m. Those who obtained free tickets in advance will receive the boxes, but social services groups from across the city also will load vans and buses with the food to distribute to families in other neighborhoods.
Among other basketball players who are expected to volunteer are Lamar Odom, Maurice Evans and Shammond Williams of the Lakers; Stephon Marbury, Malik Rose, Steve Francis, Eddie Curry and Quentin Richardson of the New York Knicks; and Richard Jefferson, Jason Kidd and Vince Carter of the Nets. Marbury and three other Knicks, Curry, Francis and Richardson, are each contributing $10,000 to the event.
Source: Bloomberg.com
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Posted on December 20, 2006 by D. Bell