Salisbury, Md. (Monday, June 8, 2015) — World Relief High Point recently opened a new training facility in High Point to train refugees on job skills better suited to meet the needs of local employers. The facility was made possible, in part, through a $10,000 grant funded by the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms.

“The new facility expands our ability to serve and the partnership with Perdue and the funding support through the Foundation helps makes this possible,” said Jennifer Foy, refugee services director at World Relief High Point.

With contributions from the State of North Carolina and the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the training facility opened in May with four sewing machines, a classroom with a projector and a computer training station. This training facility is open to community volunteers who want to help refugees integrate into the local community and workforce, and also allows local employers to tailor their training to refugees through the assistance of World Relief.

“World Relief High Point is helping to educate our communities newest residents in the ways of America and to prepare them for the work force in their new home country,” said Kendall Casey, director of Perdue operations in Rockingham, N.C. Perdue employees more than 50 refugees in Rockingham through the World Relief program.

“We know this programming works, as we have hired many of its students into our facility,” said Casey. “It gives students a leg-up in their quest to become productive in their workplace and comfortable in our country. We are honored to invest in its success through this funding through the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation.”

About World Relief
Founded in 1944, World Relief is a faith-based international relief and development organization that serves over four million people each year in more than 13 nations worldwide. As the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, World Relief is committed to empowering the local church to serve the most vulnerable. Headquartered in Baltimore, World Relief’s twenty five offices around the country focus domestic efforts on anti-human trafficking, refugee resettlement, and immigrant services. Internationally, World Relief supports disaster response, community health, economic development, agribusiness and peace-building. For more information: www.worldrelief.org.

About Perdue Farms
Perdue Farms is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for everyone we touch through innovative food and agricultural products. Since our beginning on Arthur Perdue’s farm in 1920, to our expansion into agribusiness and the introduction of the PERDUE® brand of chicken and turkey under Frank Perdue, and continuing with our third generation of leadership with Chairman Jim Perdue, we’ve remained family owned and family operated. We are the parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness. Through our PERDUE® SIMPLY SMART®, PERDUE® HARVESTLAND®, COLEMAN PREMIUM® and COLEMAN ORGANIC® food brands; agricultural products and services; and stewardship and corporate responsibility programs, we are working to become the most-trusted name in food and agricultural products. Learn more about Perdue Farms at www.perduefarms.com.

About The Arthur W. Perdue Foundation
The Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, was established in 1957 by company founder Arthur W. Perdue and is funded through the estates of Arthur W. Perdue and Frank Perdue. As part of our belief in supporting the communities where and with whom we do business, the Foundation provides grants on behalf of Perdue Farms in communities where large numbers of our associates live and work.  At Perdue Farms, we believe in responsible food and agriculture.™