Media Advisory - MPs band together in "Brown Bag Blitz" to help West Africa in final days before government match deadline

OTTAWA, Sept. 25, 2012 /CNW/ -

WHAT:	World Vision brings the "My Lunch Paid for African Aid" campaign to downtown Ottawa on Wednesday, September 26. Members of Parliament and World Vision representatives will be distributing brown bags and asking people to pack a lunch and donate their lunch money to humanitarian relief efforts in West Africa before the Government of Canada's match deadline on September 30. In addition to handing out thousands of these special lunch bags, the MPs and World Vision members will be accompanied by two giant six-foot-tall lunch bags with "My Lunch Paid for African Aid" logos.
WHO:	- World Vision Canada's Senior Director, Elly Vandenberg, along with staff from World Vision Canada - MPs Wayne Easter, Mark Eyking, Romeo Saganash, Isabelle Morin, Peter Braid, Dean Allison, Mike Lake
	* All participants will be available for interviews about the Government of Canada's donation matching program for the Sahel (West Africa) crisis.
WHEN:	Wednesday, September 26
WHERE:	Corner of Albert Street & Metcalfe Street - World Exchange Plaza (7-9 am); OC Transpo stop at Slater Street & Bank Street (7-9 am); Sparks Street Mall at the corners of O'Connor Street and Metcalfe Street (noon - 1 pm)
	NOTE: MPs will be participating at the noon event on Sparks Street Mall only.
VISUALS:		- Two giant six-foot-tall lunch bags with "My Lunch Paid for African Aid" logos
		- MPs and World Vision representatives distributing brown lunch bags to commuters.
		- B-roll and photographs of the West African food crisis are available for download here

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SOURCE: World Vision Canada

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