Ivanka Trump spent Giving Tuesday in North Carolina distributing food to rural families

EXCLUSIVE: Ivanka Trump spent Giving Tuesday in North Carolina with Ripe Revival, an organization that works to distribute meat, dairy, fresh produce and other items to food-insecure rural families in the state.

“Wonderful organizations like Ripe Revival foster connectivity between America’s small farms and hungry families in need of healthy, nutritious food,” Trump said. “This Giving Tuesday, I had the pleasure of joining Ripe Revival in North Carolina to help distribute their beautiful, locally sourced fresh produce, protein and dairy to food-insecure rural families near Raleigh.”

During his visit, Trump helped Ripe for Revival pack the mobile market bus with food and later volunteered at one of its weekly distribution sites in Littleton, North Carolina. The organization has partnered with the Ed Fitts Charitable Foundation and Littleton Academy, a community organization and school. , to establish a voucher program that allows parents to buy groceries with their children after school.

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The prices of food products on the mobile market bus are subsidized and cost approximately 25% less than those found in the grocery store.

“Ripe For Revival’s goal is to revive communities through food by creating impact from farm to consumer and beyond,” CEO Will Kornegay told Fox News. “Our mission is rooted in agriculture and driven to connect communities together.”

Ivanka Trump spent Giving Tuesday in North Carolina.
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“We are honored to spend Giving Tuesday with Ivanka Trump and her team as they visit the Ripe For Revival 501(c)(3) Mobile Market Payment Program,” Kornegay said. “This nonprofit program makes fresh, local produce and food accessible and affordable to everyone, regardless of their budget.”

Ripe Revival credits the creation of its nonprofit and business organization to the Farmers to Families Food Box program that Trump spearheaded along with USDA Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during the Trump administration. This program provided nearly 4 billion meals to families in need during the COVID pandemic.

Former program participants, including Ripe for Revival, have grown both their for-profit food distribution business and their nonprofit organization.

Since leaving government, Trump has focused on philanthropic efforts that include supporting America’s farmersfighting food insecurity and assisting in various disaster relief efforts at home and abroad.

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During the early days of Russia’s war against Ukraine, he helped provide 1 million meals to needy Ukrainian families.

Nationally, she has provided financial aid and volunteered in disaster-stricken areas of the United States, including Kentucky, Florida and Louisiana.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital this month, Trump said he “doesn’t plan to get involved in politics again.”

Ripe Revival helps rural communities with food insecurity.
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“I love my father very much. This time, I choose to prioritize my young children and the private life we ​​are creating as a family.” Ivanka Trump told Fox News Digital. “I don’t plan to get involved in politics.”

“While I will always love and support my father, I will do so outside of the political arena going forward. I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and will always be proud of the many accomplishments of the our administration”.

She told Fox that she is “extremely close” with her father.

“This has not changed and will never change,” he added. “I’ve had many roles over the years, but that of daughter is one of the most elemental and consequential. I’m loving this time with my kids, loving life in Miami and the freedom and privacy of being back in the private sector . This has been one of the best moments of my life.”

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Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, later moved to Miami spend four years in WashingtonDC, and serving in the Trump administration.

“My kids are thriving and I want to keep that cadence, that rhythm, at this point in our family’s life,” she said, adding that “time is fleeting and any parent will tell you that it really does go by so fast .”

The couple has three children: Arabella, 11, Joseph, 9, and Theodore, 6.

“They are at critical ages and we are enjoying these moments with them,” Trump said. “We are happy where we are now, and we will continue to support my father as children.”

Trump, who served as a senior White House adviser during his father’s administration, told Fox News Digital that he “never intended to go into politics.”

Ivanka Trump volunteered at Ripe Revival.

“I’m very proud of what I’ve been able to achieve,” she said. “I left it all on the field, and I don’t miss it.”

During her time in the Trump administration, Ivanka Trump championed policies that supported economic opportunity for working families, including doubling the child tax credit, supporting child care, developing the educational workforce and paid family leave. He successfully advocated for the largest expansion of Child Care and Development Grants.

He also worked with members of Congress to secure 12 weeks of paid family leave for federal workers, and participated in the COVID negotiations to ensure that small business workers had paid sick leave to care for themselves in themselves or sick family members.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked closely with the Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department to help enact the Paycheck Protection Program and worked with the USDA to create the Farmers to Families Food Box program, which delivered more than 170 million boxes. of fresh food to families in need.

During his time in Washington, he also pushed to double the Justice Department’s funding to combat human trafficking.