Hilary Duff Donates Meals to Gulf Coast Hurricane Victims

Press release
Source: Rogers & Cowan

Internationally-celebrated, multi-platinum recording artist, concert performer, actress, designer, philanthropist and business woman Hilary Duff will continue her enormously generous charitable contributions to the victims of Hurricane Katrina with the donation of more than 200,000 meals to two shelters in Houston, TX.  Duff has purchased these meals through USA Harvest, who she has done relief work and philanthropic donations with in the past, to be delivered to the Star of Hope shelter as well as the Harbor Lights Salvation Army shelter in Houston.  Each shelter will receive 100,000 meals for the Hurricane Katrina refugees who are still shelter residents.  Tyme It, a trucking company out of Louisville, will be delivering the supplies for free today and tomorrow, November 16th-17th, to Harbor Lights and Star of Hope, respectively.

“Hilary has set an extraordinary example with her generous contributions to the Gulf Coast victims of last year’s tragic hurricanes,” said Stan Curtis, Chairman of USA Harvest.  “With her current contribution, Hilary will have donated over 2.7 million meals to the victims who still need these generous donations.”

On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in August, Duff traveled to New Orleans with Curtis to visit and aid victims of last year’s devastating hurricanes.  Hilary’s schedule was packed with trips to elementary schools, a high school, a disaster recovery center and a rescue mission to provide inspirational words, food and comfort to the many victims of the storm.

The 2.7 million meals that Hilary has donated through USA Harvest in the last year were prepared and distributed at Salvation Army canteens throughout the Gulf Coast region.  Several of Hilary’s corporate partners including Fashion Accessory Bazaar, Mattel, Hasbro, Freedom Water and Energy drinks, Meijer Grocery Stores, Mas Tec. Corporation, The Mas Family Foundation of Miami, Schenkelshultz Architecture and Sinclair Broadcast Group all made large donations to USA Harvest and Hilary’s partnership to support the recovery effort.  Hilary also encouraged her fans to bring canned food to her concerts.  The donated food was collected by USA Harvest and distributed to food shelters across the Gulf Coast region.

About Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff is an internationally celebrated multi-platinum, chart-topping recording artist, concert performer, actress, designer, philanthropist and businesswoman.  Hilary's recent world concert tour spanned the globe, with multi-city appearances in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Canada and Latin America.  Hilary’s latest CD Most Wanted was #1 for two consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 music chart in the U.S., #1 for two consecutive weeks on the Canadian chart and also reached top-charting success in several other countries.  Her new single "Play with Fire" in conjunction with her new movie Material Girls and will be included on her forthcoming new Hollywood Records release in early 2007.  As a designer, Hilary is actively involved with her creative director in leading the design process to expand her fashion, beauty and home products business globally, including her ‘tween label stuff by hilary duff now launching its Fall collection in nearly 7,500 stores including Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, Target, JC Penney and Sears among others, and her teen designer label hilary duff kicking off with the Fall launch of Hilary’s fragrance line from Elizabeth Arden and followed by a juniors line of apparel in 2007/08.  For more information on Hilary Duff, please visit her website at www.hilaryduff.com.

About USA Harvest
In its 18 years of operation, USA Harvest has collected and distributed more than 11.7 billion pounds of food to those in need around the world.  USA Harvest has grown to include 124 cities with more than 127,000 volunteers in the United States.  USA Harvest is America’s largest all-volunteer food distribution organization.  For more information about USA Harvest, please go to www.usaharvest.com.