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Paisley, wife make 1M meal pledge
After opening a free grocery store earlier this year, country music star Brad Paisley and his wife are expanding their efforts to fight hunger in America.
Paisley and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, have pledged to donate 1?million nutritional meals this month. The initiative is billed as the Million Meal Donation Tour, which kicked off in Detroit last week.
The tour will run for two weeks visiting food banks in 16 major cities including Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Atlanta, Miami and Nashville, Tennessee. It will end in Chicago on Monday.
“We’re just rallying to feed people,” Paisley said.
The couple and their food brand, Tiller & Hatch, are working with Feeding America on the initiative. The meals will be packed in semitrucks with about 750,000 pounds of food to feed more than 60,000 families.
Williams-Paisley said they are grateful to be servants to the community during the pandemic.
“So many of us feel helpless during this time,” she said. “It just feels like there’s one disaster after another. One challenging situation after another. But it’s been really wonderful for both of us to have this outlet that was coming into fruition. We can’t solve all the problems. But to tackle this issue, it’s been really empowering.”
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