Bowens provide food boxes to area families

Fort Madison native Ryan Bowen, a current member of the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association, and his wife Wendy are teaming up with international hunger relief organization Feed The Children to provide 200 families with boxes of food and personal care items.

The Bowens will be on hand at the distributions, which will take place Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Notre Dame High School and 12:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic High School in Fort Madison.

The Ryan Bowen Family Foundation is a Feed The Children partner agency and has pre-identified all 400 families who will each receive over 40 pounds of food and personal care items.

"We are so grateful for Ryan and Wendy Bowen", said Larry Jones, president and founder of Feed The Children. "Families in Iowa will receive food because of this generous gift of kindness. We send our most sincere 'Thank you' to Ryan and Wendy."

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