{"id":101671,"date":"2020-07-18T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunlightradio.com\/?p=101671"},"modified":"2020-07-18T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:23:14","slug":"tyler-perry-gives-1000-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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunlightradio.com\/tyler-perry-gives-1000-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\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Perry Gives 1,000 Kroger Gift Cards for Police Officers to Hand Out to Atlanta Residents as He Says \u2018This is About Good People Who Need a Hand Up\u2019 and…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tyler Perry gifted 1,000 gift cards to Atlanta residents and enlisted cops to hand them out
\nCOURTESY TYLER PERRY. INSET: GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tyler Perry<\/a> is continuing to give back to his Atlanta community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is about the community that I love, that I live in and work in,\u201d Perry said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. \u201cThis is about good people who are in need of a hand up not a hand out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued, \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI love Atlanta and its people!\u201d Perry added.<\/p>\n

Atlanta police officers handed out 1,000 Kroger gift cards to residents on behalf of Tyler Perry
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An Atlanta police officer gives a resident a Kroger gift card on behalf of Tyler Perry
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Last month, Perry donated a van to an Atlanta women\u2019s organization<\/a> that provides hygiene products to people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Erica Wright, the founder of the non-profit Project U First<\/a>, shared that the producer and actor donated a brand-new cargo van to the organization, which provides \u201cpeople in need the basics for health, hygiene and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n

SOURCE: PEOPLE, Alexia Fernandez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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