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The Houston Rockets teamed up with Target Hunger during the month of October to help Houston’s hungry. The collaboration was a part of the Rocket’s Give Back program, a year-long initiative focused on the organization’s commitment to make a difference in the Houston community.
Last month, Rockets employees volunteered their time with Target Hunger, helping with various activities including working at the Food Pantry and helping to serve underprivileged families in the Fifth Ward.
Target Hunger, a United Way agency, was founded in 1989 as a grassroots, community-based program to fight the increasing hunger problem within Houston’s inner city neighborhoods. Community leaders such as the late congressman Mickey Leland and Pete Van Horn, along with others from the United Way, helped to form the Select Committee on Hunger to examine the issue of hunger in Houston. They found an area of town where the needs of the hungry were not being met, and Target Hunger was formed.
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