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Ellis, Ged & Bodden launches drive to collect relief supplies

The lawyers of Ellis, Ged & Bodden, P.A., are teaming with Food For The Poor and Toussiant L’Ouverture High School to provide much needed aid to the victims of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. The earthquake, which, according to the US Geological Survey, was centered just off the coast of Haiti, about 10 miles west of the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0. Early estimates indicate that as many as 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population – may have been affected by the quake.

Food For The Poor is seeking donations of canned meats, fish, water and condensed, evaporated milk. Toussaint L’Ouverture High School will rely on its community ties in the devastated areas of Haiti to distribute additional relief supplies. Donations may be dropped off at the offices of Ellis, Ged & Bodden at 7171 North Federal Highway in Boca Raton between the hours of 7:30 am and 5:30 pm.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti and to the Haitian American community,” C. Glen Ged, a founding partner in the Boca Raton-based law firm, said in the wake of the deadly earthquake. “I feel humbled in the face of such staggering loss; surely those of us who can offer more than heartfelt sympathy have a responsibility to provide whatever measure of comfort we can.”

Food For The Poor, based in South Florida base, is a major international relief and development organization that serves millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. In addition to food, the interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. For more information please visit, http://www.foodforthepoor.org/

Toussaint L'Ouverture High School for Arts & Social Justice is an innovative charter high school in Boynton Beach, serving students in grades 9-12. The tuition-free, publicly funded institution seeks to provide motivated students a unique secondary school experience using arts as a vehicle for social justice and individual change. The school’s vision is geared toward helping youth acquire the skills they need to be successful in college and/or work and to have a voice in co-creating a world they can believe in.

For more information on the disaster relief efforts being coordinating through Ellis, Ged & Bodden’s, visit http://www.ellisandged.com/ or call (561) 995-1966.