Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor, is visiting partners and communities in Guatemala along with four FFP colleagues. Hours into his arrival he encountered a family desperately trying to make ends meet. Below is an email he shared with the Food For The Poor staff about the family’s saga. We arrived in Guatemala […]
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I Thought of Jesus (Part 2 of 3)
PART TWO Our afternoon began with a visit to our boy’s orphanage and school, Foyer de l’Espoir (House of Hope). This was the site of the soccer game between our boys from this home and the “visiting team” from Lynn University that had accompanied me on my last trip. Our boys beat them 6 – […]
I Thought of Jesus (Part 1 of 3)
On Tuesday, May 6th, a group of 19 of us – priests, pastors, deacons, the director of Speakers’ Bureau (Vicki Kaufman) and myself – departed from Fort Lauderdale to Port au Prince, Haiti. The humid heat, the “welcome” music, the crowds offering taxis and to carry our small pieces of luggage and the musicians in […]
Givers Get Something, Too!
Six-year-old Junior couldn’t have been more thrilled to open a backpack stuffed with folders, notebooks, pencils, Crayola markers and highlighters that came to him and 28 other boys at an Angels Of Hope children’s home in Guyana from more than 2,000 miles away. This past year, employees at Bankers Healthcare Group filled 400 backpacks with […]
The Secret Ingredient Is Love
By Donna Cleveland Who doesn’t love chocolate cake? The first time I ate a piece of Food For The Poor Executive Director Angel Aloma’s famous chocolate cake, I couldn’t resist boldly asking him for the secret ingredient. With a warm smile and a wink of the eye, he whispered, “It’s love!” When a home-cooked meal […]
Our donors are super heroes!
One hundred homes will be built for poor families in Jamaica, Honduras and Nicaragua, thanks to the generous support of Food For The Poor donors on #GivingTuesday. Food For The Poor Executive Director Angel Aloma shares his loving gratitude: “Our donors are super heroes! Our countries are always in crisis – and not necessarily from natural […]
A Safe Home (and Much More) in Honduras, Thanks to You
A few weeks ago, Angel, our Executive Director, shared about a family living underneath a tarp in a garbage dump in Honduras. Angel wrote about Maria, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant. He called for prayer that her baby would be born and raised in a safe, new home, instead of in the hazardous dump.
Pray for Baby to be Born into the Light of a New Home
Our Executive Director, Angel Aloma, traveled with a group of clergymen recently to Honduras to visit children and their families who benefit from our programs. The group also met with families living in desperate conditions. This is Angel’s account of one encounter. On my trip in Honduras last week, we visited a garbage dump in […]
What Giving Does to the Soul and Body
“Give of yourself, give as much as you can! And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!… Give and you shall receive, much more than you would have ever thought possible. Give, give again and again… No one has ever become poor from giving.” — Anne Frank Food For The […]