Rite Aid Foundation Awards $5,000 Grant To Women Are Dreamers Too Inc.

The Rite Aid Foundation announced today a $5,000 grant to Women Are Dreamers Too, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides support services to victims of domestic abuse throughout Georgia. The grant will be used to fund counseling for women who are victims of domestic or sexual abuse. Last year, The Rite Aid Foundation awarded the organization a $2,000 grant. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) July 27, 2012 - CAMP HILL, Pa. - The Rite Aid Foundation announced today a $5,000 grant to Women Are Dreamers Too, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides support services to victims of domestic abuse throughout Georgia. The grant will be used to fund counseling for women who are victims of domestic or sexual abuse. Last year, The Rite Aid Foundation awarded the organization a $2,000 grant.

"This is the second grant in as many years that The Rite Aid Foundation has been able to provide to Women Are Dreamers Too Inc.," said Gayle Rife, Manager of The Rite Aid Foundation. "We are proud to support them in their efforts to provide counseling to those in need."

Women Are Dreamers Too, Inc. was founded in 1998 as a volunteer job placement service for homeless women of downtown Atlanta. While providing job placement services to these women, it became known that many of these women were survivors of domestic or sexual abuse. As such, it became clear that a more comprehensive approach to job placement, including intense counseling, short-term shelter, child nutrition intervention, and literacy education, was needed. For more information on Women Are Dreamers Too Inc., visit www.wadt.org.

"We are focused on improving the lives of women who are victims of domestic violence," said Cindy Williams, Executive Director of Women are Dreamers Too Inc. "Thanks to the generosity of The Rite Aid Foundation, we are able to provide the counseling necessary to help survivors of domestic violence., in order to help them address the deep scars within, so they are able to lead productive lives and contribute economically to our community. "Our community is indeed grateful to The Rite-Aid Foundation, for this well-timed grant."

Rite Aid operates 191 stores across the state of Georgia.

The Rite Aid Foundation, founded in July 2001, is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to helping people in the communities Rite Aid serves. Since its inception, The Rite Aid Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $13 million to approximately 820 organizations in 488 communities. For more information on The Rite Aid Foundation, visit www.riteaid.com.

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains with more than 4,600 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia and fiscal 2012 annual revenues of $26.1 billion. Information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press releases, is available through the company's website at www.riteaid.com.

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