Cera Products donates CeraSport for silent auction to assist
AIDS orphans
Company shows support
Washington DC, May 3, 2004--Furthuring its reputation as a committed, caring company, Cera Products donated 4 cases of CeraSport for a silent auction sponsored by Sweet Charity/DC, the first in a series of fundraising events for FXB, a charity that builds community and family-based support structures for AIDs orphans and other at-risk children. The benefit is a joint project of FXB and Albert Uster Imports, a Swiss-based chocolate company.
The event brings together pastry chefs from Washington’s
leading hotels and restaurants for a unique event emphasizing chocolate as
a metaphor for
the sweetness and potential in every child. The other benefit sites will be
New York and Los Angeles.
Cera Products Press Contact
Charlene Riikonen
410.309.1000 or charlene.riikonen@ceraproducts.us
Cera Products Inc.
Cera Products Inc. is a Maryland-based biotechnology company.
Founded by Ms. Charlene Riikonen and Johns Hopkins University physicians Dr.
William Greenough and Dr. David Sack, Cera develops, manufactures and distributes
high-performance, proprietary rice-based oral rehydration solutions (ORS). The
company's mission is to save lives, improve quality of life, and reduce health
care costs associated with dehydration worldwide. For more information, visit
the Cera Products website at www.ceraproductsinc.com.
FXB
By rebuilding, empowering and monitoring communities devastated
by HIV/AIDS, FXB ensures that long-term support for orphans and vulnerable
children is effective and sustainable by demonstrating the inextricable link
between health and human rights. FXB1s strategies are tailored to the social,
cultural and political aspects of each community and are implemented on-site
by over 600 staff members recruited locally. FXB has established more than
87 programs or initiatives in 17 countries to support children whose families
have been
destroyed by the AIDS pandemic and who suffer
social ostracism and exploitation as child soldiers, street children, terrorists
and child prostitutes.
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