San Francisco Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt has been nominated for the Jefferson Award for Public Service. Click here to vote for him today!
Jeremy Affeldt was the first Major League baseball player make a Free2Play pledge! You can read more about his pledge below.
The Jefferson Award was established with the intention of creating a Nobel Prize for community and public service. It is given by the All Stars Helping Kids, a nonprofit organization founded by NFL Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott in 1989 “with the goal of promoting a safe, healthy, rigorous learning environment for disadvantaged kids in low-income communities.”
You have until Nov. 15 to vote for Jeremy on the All Stars Helping Kids website. Five finalists will be chosen in each of two categories: Outstanding Athlete in Service and Outstanding Athlete as a Newcomer in Service. One athlete in each category will be awarded a national Jefferson Award for Public Service next June. Read more about Jeremy here.
Jeremy’s Free2Play pledge: This season, Jeremy has committed to give $100 to the Not For Sale Campaign for every strike-out he pitches.
The money Jeremy donates will go to support the work Not For Sale is doing to fight slavery across the globe:
In Peru — offering safe haven and care to hundreds of kids formerly trafficked on the dangerous streets of Lima. In Ghana — working to prevent the drowning and abuse of children sold into the local fishing industry. In Thailand — building a medical clinic stocked with $500,000 in needed supplies at our village for children rescued out of sex trafficking in the cities. In Northern Uganda — building schools for former child soldiers, providing the children with safety and education. In Nepal — fighting to prevent the trafficking of thousands of Nepalese women into India’s sex industry, and this year, raising the support needed to build them a medical clinic equipped with $2 million in donated medical supplies. And in Oakland, California, teenage girls rescued from the sex industry now take part in a rollerblade club created with Free2Play gifts.
Click HERE to learn more about Not For Sale’s international projects, and click HERE to learn how you too can be Free2Play.
Read more about Jeremy’s dedication to combating human trafficking in the recent San Francisco Chronicle Article.
