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Lee Marshall is an Emmy award winning journalist who anchors the morning and noon news for WAFF 48 News, the NBC station in Huntsville, Alabama and WDRM radio. Lee hosts the weekly segment "Kids to Love" on WAFF 48 where she introduces viewers to children waiting to be adopted. In the past 7 years, she has profiled 193 children. Of the 193 - 185 have found forever families through adoption. Born into foster care, adopted into a loving home, Lee Marshall knows first hand the difference a forever family can make. Lee is the founder of the Kids to Love Foundation, a non profit organization dedicated to meeting the immediate needs of foster children while they wait for forever families. The Kids to Love Foundation has provided 49 college scholarships to foster children, Christmas for more than 1,900 children in 2007 and school supplies to more than 3,100 children in 2007. Through the Foundation's Meth Orphan Program, the Kids to Love Foundation has helped 55 local children pulled from meth labs. In November of 2005, the Kids to Love Foundation took an aggressive effort to rescue children living in these dangerous labs. The See Meth Stop Meth Tip Line has received more than 680 tips, with more than 500 reporting children living in these dangerous meth labs. As a result law enforcement officers have made dozens of arrests. Lee was honored in January 2009 by the Midsouth region of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences with an Emmy Award for community service for her commitment to foster children through her Kids to Love Foundation. Lee has been honored by Congress as an Angel in Adoption. She has also been commended for her work with foster and adoptive children in the Congressional Record. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recognized Lee for her adoption awareness efforts. Lee has turned her hobby of singing into an international music career, selling albums from Alabama to Australia. Lee uses her music ministry as the primary fundraising source for the Kids to Love Foundation. Lee and her husband Jeff are the proud parents of daughters Ella and Emma and call Huntsville, Alabama home.
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