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Food For The Poor Partners Provide Earthquake Relief to Ecuador

Food For The Poor Partners Provide Earthquake Relief to Ecuador

November 22, 2021May 25, 2016 Victoria Green

As Ecuador continues to recover from the April earthquake, longtime Food For The Poor partner Hormel Foods is providing essential food assistance. The charity will ship: 16 pallets of SKIPPY® peanut butter. 13 pallets of SPAM® single packages. Seaboard Marine has agreed to ship the relief items at no cost to the charity. Shipments of rice […]


Haiti Earthquake: 10-Year Reflection

Haiti Earthquake: 10-Year Reflection

November 22, 2021January 10, 2020 Victoria Green

By Leann Chong, Director, Missions & Travel When people find out about my experience in Haiti 10 years ago, they often describe it as a miracle.  I wholeheartedly agree! Our mission group from Lynn University had experienced impactful days in the field, visiting our Canteen where we served meals to hungry families, and playing with […]


Going Home: One Month After Puerto Rico’s Earthquake

Going Home: One Month After Puerto Rico’s Earthquake

November 22, 2021February 27, 2020 Victoria Green

By Jisabelle Garcia-Pedroso, Food For The Poor GIK Procurement Manager After I attended a wonderful family reunion in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico over the New Year’s holiday and Three Kings Day, my family and I awoke on January 7 at 4:25 a.m. to a violent 6.8 magnitude earthquake that would imprint a feeling I would […]


Haiti earthquake anniversary mass

Haiti earthquake anniversary mass

November 22, 2021May 17, 2012 Megan

Food For The Poor photographer Benjamin Rusnak took this photograph during a Jan. 12, 2011, mass outside the remains of the Cathedral Notre Dame de l’Assomption (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Those pictured were praying for loved ones lost during the Jan. 12, 2010, magnitude 7.0 earthquake that claimed more […]


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