2007 Participants

2006 Highlights

• First Place Winner: Peyton Forest Elementary School collected 7200 food items
• Peyton Forest Elementary School collected 7200 food items which sets a new record for items collected by one school. Peyton Forest Elementary won complimentary tickets to the February 23, 2007 performance of the UniverSoul Circus in Atlanta at Turner Field!
• Over 70,000 food items collected
  • The 2006 Food for the Soul campaign nets over 70,000 food items!
• Over 47 schools participated in 2006

2005 Highlights

• First Place Winners: SUTTON MIDDLE SCHOOL & HOPE ELEMENTARY
• Over 17,000 food items collected
• Over 16 schools participated in 2005

Food For The Soul 2007
2007 Food For The Soul Winner – Ralph Bunche Middle School!

UniverSoul Circus and Hosea Feed The Hungry are proud to announce the 2007 Food For The Soul Winner – Ralph Bunche Middle School. Ralph Bunche Middle School has won complimentary tickets for the entire school (students and staff) to the February 19, 2008 morning performance of the UniverSoul Circus in Atlanta at Turner Field.

Ralph Bunche Middle School collected an amazing 17,096 food items which is more than double the amount of last year’s winner and sets a new record for items collected by one school. Furthermore, Ralph Bunche collected more items than all the schools combined in our first drive in 2005.

We would also like to recognize and extend special thanks to Atlanta Peach Movers, which has done a phenomenal job during the Food For The Soul drive and provided their trucks and drivers to help us collect the 76,000 plus food items.

So between the winning school and the runner ups, UniverSoul Circus will distribute 2,400 complimentary tickets to reward and acknowledge the incredible humanitarian efforts displayed by the students, staff, parents, and community supporters of the UniverSoul Circus Food For The Soul program.

The food items collected by the Food For The Soul drive will help Hosea Feed The Hungry to provide food to those in need 12 months a year. Below are a few statistics on Food For The Soul:

1. The Grand Total as of December 19th for the 2007 Food For The Soul drive is 76,529 and counting.
2. In 2007 the winning school (Ralph Bunche Middle School) collected an amazing 17,096 food items which is more than double the amount of last year’s winner (Peyton Forest Elementary – 7,200) and set a new record for items collected by one school.
3. In 2007 Bunche Middle School single handedly exceeded the total amount of food items collected in our first Food For The Soul Drive in 2005 (17,034).
4. In 2007 our participants include 13 schools from Atlanta Public Schools, 2 from Clayton County Schools, and 9 from DeKalb County Schools.
5. In 2007 each of the four runner-ups collected more than the 2006 winner; Peyton Forest Elementary (11,400), Fickett Elementary (8,642), Oliver (8,150), and C.W. Hill Elementary (7,238).
6. In 2007, there are fourteen schools that collected over 1000 food items each.
7. In 2007, 20 schools collected at least one can for each student.
8. In 2006 the highest ratio of food items to students at one school was 13.6 to 1 at Peyton Forest Elementary.
9. In 2007 the highest ratio of food items to students at one school was 20.8 to 1 at C.W Hill Elementary. And three other schools exceeded the 2006 ratio as well, Fickett at 15.7, Bunche at 20.7, and Peyton Forest at 24.3.
10. There are eight schools that have participated each year in Food For The Soul (2005, 2006, & 2007) – C.W. Hill Elementary, East Lake Elementary, Grove Park Elementary, Kemp Primary School, Parkside Elementary, Perkerson Elementary, Peyton Forest Elementary, and Sutton Middle School. In three years of the Food For The Soul program, those eight schools have collected over 105,000 food items.

For more information, please contact Ben Johnson at 404-588-1235.

Hosea Feed The Hungry & Homeless

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