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05.05.11

In a room filled with designer-clad women balancing on Jimmy Choo stilettos, one man stood quietly to the side, talking about children who had no shoes. “When the tornados struck in Alabama,” explained Mark Shriver, “families literally had to run for their lives, with only minutes to spare.” Shriver, Senior Vice President for U.S. Programs of   Save the Children , said much of the nonprofit’s work in Alabama and Mississippi involved supplying children with shoes: “they lost everything.”

 Shriver was representing Save the Children at the National Mother’s Day Committee Outstanding Mother Awards at New York’s Pierre Hotel on May 5. The awards center on high-profile women, including this year’s honorees, Donna Karan, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Glamour Magazine Editor Cindi Leive, Susan Sarandon, and Bon-Ton fashion executive Joyce Armeli. The annual event, one of several sponsored by the National Father’s Day/Mother’s Day Council , has generated more than $31 million in donations to family-related charities in the US. in strategic locations throughout the United States.  This allows Save the Children to create designated areas in shelters where children can play, socialize, and begin the recovery process in the wake of disasters. In addition to these kits, the supplies urgently needed included diapers and bassinettes for the families left homeless by the severe outbreak of tornados in April.

Source: OnPhilanthropy.com