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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth Mallory (mallory@nclo.org)
No Child Left Out Kicks Off Their “It’s The Small Things” Community Drive
FENTON, MICHIGAN, February 21, 2005 – While many Americans are super-sizing everything from their meals to their houses, Elizabeth Mallory is determined to get people to think small. As part of the No Child Left Out (NCLO) “It’s The Small Things” community drive, Mallory hopes to rally up area businesses and get them involved in small ways that can make a big difference to children in need. The all-volunteer, not-for-profit Fenton-based organization NCLO is asking businesses to implement one or more of the following small actions: -- Collect any or all of the following for NCLO: · VG’s Food Center receipts · Recyclables cans/bottles · Old cell phones, palm pilots (PDAs) and pagers · Empty printer/toner cartridges · Pocket/spare change -- Hold a “Jeans Day” or similar themed donation day to benefit NCLO -- Share NCLO’s monthly newsletter with employees Elizabeth Mallory knows firsthand how small steps add up. The seeds of NCLO were planted when she visited Cambodia in 2002 and delivered gifts from hopeful adoptive parents to their children who were living in orphanages and waiting for visas to come home. Mallory’s small acts of kindness made a large positive impact on the children and the families who were waiting for them here in the United States. Three years later, NCLO has flourished into an organization made up of volunteers worldwide helping to provide food, clothing, shelter, health care and more, directly to children in need. The small actions of Mallory and her volunteers have led NCLO to their largest-scale project to date – the NCLO Center. Cambodia’s NCLO center will be a facility that will provide a loving, family-type home to children in need while also reaching out to improve the conditions at area orphanages and in poverty-stricken villages that have resorted to relinquishing their children. The NCLO Center, set to open in Fall 2005, will be a home where children will be loved and nurtured in a family environment and given a future with the support they need to make a difference in the world. Elizabeth Mallory says “NCLO is a firm believer that the best place for a child is in a loving family environment. That factor is at the heart of the Center’s design and operation. We hope businesses will support our ‘It’s The Small Things’ drive and implement a few small actions that will help us raise funds to truly make a big difference in the lives of children.” No Child Left Out is a 501c3 non-profit organization of volunteers dedicated to helping children in desperate situations worldwide. Working primarily in Cambodia and Haiti, NCLO provides food, clean water, educational opportunities, health care and shelter for children in need. For more information on NCLO and the NCLO Center, visit www.NCLO.org or contact Elizabeth Mallory by email at mallory@nclo.org. NCLO’s office is located at 208 E. Caroline St. in Fenton. # # #
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