Jesus taught a valuable lesson about sharing when He performed the miracle of feeding 5,000 people. You can share your blessings and Christ’s compassion by feeding families, educating children, turning shacks into homes, and providing clean water. The Food For The Poor Spring Catalog offers products from fruit trees to schools that will change lives […]
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Tales from Haiti: A boy and his stubborn goat
Q. Who will win this tug-of-war: the boy or the goat? I spotted this boy yanking — one by one — his families’ two goats from the village’s pen to his home. The goats were gifts from Hope For Haitians, a charitable group that has built six villages in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. For families like […]
Donating Wedding Gifts to Charity
By Roberta S. Weddings are an amazing time for loved ones to get together and celebrate love and life. In the spirit of celebrating life, love and generosity, some brides and grooms are using their big day as an opportunity to help people in need. Many couples tying the knot these days already have plenty of kitchen […]
Food For The Poor Donors’ Gifts at Work
By April S. At Ciudad de Niños home, a Food For The Poor-supported orphanage in western El Salvador, the children sell fragrant candles for $1 and make an 80-cent profit with each purchase. The soy wax is provided by generous donors, the glass is made with recycled bottles collected from the area, and the red […]
Angels of Hope orphans draw self-esteem, Biblical knowledge from contest
The 6th annual Angels of Hope Drawing Contest is now under way.
What’s for Dinner in Guatemala?
By Paul Jacobs As a member of Food For The Poor’s radio team, Paul visits remote and rural parts of the countries Food For The Poor serves. Today, he shares a story about a mother he met in Guatemala.
Carla, an Angel Of Hope
The Angels Of Hope program sponsors children who were neglected or abandoned. Through the compassionate support of donors, the children are clothed, fed and schooled. Most importantly, they are shown God’s love. Here, Angels Of Hope Program Director Tricia Szymanski visits with Carla, one of the sponsored children benefiting from the program, at a home […]
‘My Burden is Too Large,’ Cries a Grandmother
On a recent trip to Haiti, I traveled to a village called Manneville. The poverty there was extreme.
One Week in Haiti
Fourteen people who came from California, Rhode Island and states in between are in Haiti this week to share their blessings and roll up their sleeves. On the agenda: make school children smile, help dish out lifesaving food, paint a home, and be a witness to families living in despair. Victoria, an employee at Food […]
Your Generosity Brings Tremendous Healing
A love letter from our Executive Director Angel Aloma to YOU: When people say to me, “God bless you,” I think to myself that if God were to cut me off at this very moment, I would still die in His debt for how richly he has blessed me. (God, that was just a statement of […]
