Tyler Perry donates food to Hosea Feed The Hungry

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Film director, writer, producer and actor Tyler Perry donated $50,000 worth of food to the Hosea Feed The Hungry Care Center in Atlanta.

Elisabeth Omilami, CEO of the Hosea Feed The Hungry Care Center in Atlanta, introduces film director Tyler Perry (in a blue shirt) to some of their clients. He was helping deliver $50,000 worth of food to the center on Sept. 23.

Elisabeth Omilami speaks with Tyler Perry. For weeks, the Atlanta charity started in 1971 by Omilami⿿s father, civil rights icon Hosea Williams, has battled bare shelves. There⿿s been a steady uptick in folks needing food from the nonprofit as the economy has headed further and further south.

Perry donated the Publix truckload of food with his own money.

Omilami and Perry packed boxes with some of the donated food. Food pantries across metro Atlanta and the United States have been feeling the fallout of a troubled economy.

Perry joked with the assembled media pointing cameras at him as he maneuvered a large hydraulic hand truck loaded down with a pallet of spring water. The $50,000 worth of food will feed more than 1,000 families for two weeks.

The actor said the charity was close to his heart because he's been out on the street himself. "I can't imagine being in that position right now, especially with children," Perry said, shaking his head. "If more people who are in my position or corporations who are in an even better situation all do their share, we could help a lot of people in need right now."

Perry brought attention to a desperate need.

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Elisabeth Omilami, CEO of the Hosea Feed The Hungry Care Center in Atlanta, introduces film director Tyler Perry (in a blue shirt) to some of their clients. He was helping deliver $50,000 worth of food to the center on Sept. 23.

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