Help for Haiti Team to Ride Again in Third Annual Pan-Florida Challenge for Hungry Kids

Rye Beach, NH, March 7, 2016 – For the third consecutive year, a Help for Haiti team will participate in the Third Annual Pan-Florida Challenge (PFC) from Naples to Palm Beach, FL, March 12 - 13, 2016. The team will be led by Jim Willey, founder and president of Help for Haiti, the New Hampshire-based nonprofit organization dedicated to feeding impoverished children, providing them an education, and creating employment opportunities to sustain their future.

Help for Haiti is a founding charity of the PFC, which launched three years ago as the “Ride for Hunger,” in response to the thousands of children in Haiti and southern Florida that wake up hungry, every single day. Wildly successful, the PFC has become its own entity, growing from just a handful of adventurous riders in 2013 to over 100 fully supported riders this year.

Willey said, “We are excited to be part of Pan-Florida Challenge and its continued success over these last few years. It is such a blessing to participate in this journey from beginning to end. To raise the money, ride the course, receive a portion of the packed meals and deliver them, first hand, to children in north Haiti who are constantly in need of food and nourishment. It’s amazing, and it reminds us that our God is good.”

Riders sign up for the 2-day, 177-mile event with a promise to raise $1500 individually, with 100% of donations going directly to provide meals to starving children in southern Florida and Haiti. In 2015, the PFC raised enough funds for 700,000 meals, more than doubling their goal of 250,000. In response to this great success, the organization has increased its base target goal to 1,000,000 meals for 2016. Every year the PFC donates a portion of the meals to Help for Haiti to support its initiative to provide a hot lunch to 430 hungry Haitian children every school day of the year.

About the Pan-Florida Challenge

Naples, FL based Pan-Florida Challenge is a nonprofit corporation that stages an annual fundraising event and two day, 177 mile bike ride across Florida from Naples to Palm Beach, held in March. Through their fundraising and partnerships, they provide meals to hungry children who do not know where their next meal is coming from. Donations to the Pan Florida Challenge are tax deductible. The goal is for 100% of riders’ donations to go towards feeding hungry kids.

About Help for Haiti

Jim Willey founded Help for Haiti in 2010 in response to the historic earthquake that devastated most of the country. A Christian 501c3, Help for Haiti was created specifically to feed and educate children in the northeast area of Haiti while working with locals to build businesses and create job opportunities for future generations of educated, employable young adults. Help for Haiti utilizes strategic partnerships with organizations that are designed to either feed, educate or employ communities of impoverished and developing countries. In the last five years, Help for Haiti has provided over 750,000 meals to hungry children in north Haiti.

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