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Wednesday, December 2 - 2009

Reza Food Services Company (McDonald's) donates SR100,000 to Um Al Qura Association

  • Saudi Arabia: Sunday, November 30 - 2008 at 14:40
  • PRESS RELEASE

Carrying on its World Children's Day campaign for 2008, under the theme "Think about them every time you read", Reza Food Services Company (RFS), the owner and operator of McDonald's in the Western region of KSA, held a celebration at the premises of Children's House - a dedicated unit of Um Al Qura Association - with lots of fun activities and gifts for its orphans.

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  • Children from Um Al Qura Association celebrating World Children's Day.
    Children from Um Al Qura Association celebrating World Children's Day.
The celebration was attended by local media, representatives from Um Al Qura and RFS, and children from the center.

Commenting on the celebration and the success of the campaign, Abdulrahman Ali Reza, General Manager & Development Licensee, Reza Food Services Company said:
"Success has been the companion of the World Children's Day campaign for the past 7 years due to the valued support from thousands of individuals and families in the Kingdom. We would like to extend sincere thanks to all contributors and share with them our celebration today in addition to the smiles they helped us draw on the faces of the children of "Children's House unit."


This year, RFS launched the annual World Children's Day campaign on the 30th of August 2008 and end in 20th of November 2008 coinciding with the date of the World Children's Day.

"We hope that the WCD bookmark has succeeded in encouraging the public in the Kingdom to adopt reading as a natural habit. We also hope that it will remind them of the less fortunate children every time they read a book," Reza concluded.
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About World Children's Day

World Children's Day is McDonald's annual global fundraiser for children celebrated across 32,000 McDonald's restaurants in more than 121 countries. Funds raised will benefit local children's causes in communities around the world. The World Children's Day is celebrated every year on November 20th, a date which was chosen to coincide with the inauguration of the first UNICEF "Convention on the Rights of the Child" in 1989.

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