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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Washington, D.C.: Food and Friends Begins Construction
October 9, 2002 Food and Friends, a Washington-based agency that provides home-delivered meals, groceries and nutrition counseling to people with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening diseases, began construction yesterday on a 25,000-square-foot building. The facility will be open in about a year on a 2.5-acre parcel at 219 Riggs Road NE; it will replace the significantly smaller building at 58 L Street that Food and Friends has used for seven years. Construction was financed partly by private grants, a $1 million community block grant from the District of Columbia, and a $2 million appropriation from Congress. Since expanding its service area in 2000, the agency has been providing meals to people in the District and 14 counties in Maryland and Virginia.
Excerpted from:Back to other CDC news for October 9, 2002 Washington Post 10.09.02 This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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