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Tampa Bay Steel workers pack meals for Haiti
By Tammie Fields, 10 News
It wasn't your normal company Christmas party Saturday in Tampa. Eighty-five employees of the Tampa Bay Steel Corporation gathered at East Chelsea Baptist Church at 7225 East Chelsea Street to pack up 25,000 meals dry meals made up of rice and grains.
The food is being shipped to Haiti to feed those in need after the devastating earthquake and massive flooding there.
Mark Dillion, the president of Tampa Bay Steel Corporation, says if each one of us does a little to give back to others it can make the problem a lot smaller. He says,"Well, we have several previous employees that have lived in Haiti and are originally Haitians and came to work with us, so we had a connection there and, then again, just living in Florida there are just a lot of Haitian communities throughout the state."
Dillon says they got the idea after hearing about a ministry called Three Strand Cord. They worked with the organization because Dillon says it's committed to helping others in less fortunate areas.
That ministry works with Kids Against Hunger, which is an international food relief organization. The group's goal is to host other food packaging events in hopes of reaching one million meals.
