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AAFA selects charity partner

16/04/2015
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has chosen Mercy Ships as its new charity partner, and will raise money through its gala event, the American Image Awards (AIA).

Mercy Ships will match every dollar donated through AIA by a consortium of private contributors up to $1 million. Myron Ullman III is chairman of Mercy Ships and CEO of AAFA member JC Penney.

For more than 35 years, Mercy Ships has operated in more than 70 nations around the world, caring for over 2.4 million people. Mercy Ships operates the largest non-governmental hospital ship in the world.  “The diseases and medical conditions we encounter are the diseases of poverty, abject poverty,” said Don Stephens, president and founder of Mercy Ships. “Bringing this hospital ship in, with its state-of-the-art platform, surgeons, nurses and professionals from all over the world, and offering this free of charge is unique.”

Honourees for the New York-based AIA Gala on April 27 include Person of the Year: Claudio Del Vecchio, Chairman and CEO of Brooks Brothers; Company of the Year: Brown Shoe Company, to be accepted by CEO Diane Sullivan; Retailer of the Year: Holt Renfrew, to be accepted by company president Mark Derbyshire; Designer of the Year: Cynthia Rowley; and Fashion Maverick: Kelly Osbourne, Fashion Police co-host

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