Tyler Perry Gives 1,000 Kroger Gift Cards for Police Officers to Hand Out to Atlanta Residents as He Says ‘This is About Good People Who Need a Hand Up’ and…
Written by Sunlight Radio America on July 18, 2020
COURTESY TYLER PERRY. INSET: GETTY IMAGES
Tyler Perry is continuing to give back to his Atlanta community.
The media mogul, 50, gifted 1,000 Kroger gift cards to those living in Atlanta, Georgia with help from police officers at the Atlanta Police Department who went door to door in neighborhoods to hand them out.
“This is about the community that I love, that I live in and work in,” Perry said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “This is about good people who are in need of a hand up not a hand out.”
He continued, “This is about the good police officers who do their job well every day some of which are my personal friends. This is about trying to bridge unity in a city that adopted me and held me up high enough to reach my own branch on the tree of success.”
“I love Atlanta and its people!” Perry added.
COURTESY TYLER PERRY
COURTESY TYLER PERRY
Last month, Perry donated a van to an Atlanta women’s organization that provides hygiene products to people experiencing homelessness.
Erica Wright, the founder of the non-profit Project U First, shared that the producer and actor donated a brand-new cargo van to the organization, which provides “people in need the basics for health, hygiene and love.”
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SOURCE: PEOPLE, Alexia Fernandez
