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PRESS

July 27, 2006
Section: Local
Page: 2D
Compiled from staff reports
Staff
Health Care News & EventsN BRIEF

Organization wins award for hunger prevention

Monterey County's Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Principles (HELP) organization received a 14th annual Victory Against Hunger Award on July 20.

The award, given by Washington, D.C.-based Congressional Hunger Center, goes to organizations who demonstrate success and creativity in fighting hunger through school meals wellness policies.

HELP, a community-based non-profit organization that offers numerous private/public partnership intervention programs to fight rising obesity rates in the area, was chosen from a field of 84 candidates nationwide, nominated by U.S. Congress members.