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Tiny Greeter, Huge Welcome

Tiny Greeter, Huge Welcome

December 9, 2021 RKD Digital

Every time the front door opened at a rural nutrition center in Guatemala that I was visiting with our team, 4-year-old Dervy marched right up to each visitor. I watched as he smiled broadly, spread his little arms in a sweeping motion across the entryway and then gleefully shouted, “¡Bienvenido!”, the Spanish word for “welcome.” […]


5 Great Projects

5 Great Projects

November 22, 2021April 20, 2012 Robby

FFP supports many fantastic, noble projects large and small that are made possible thanks to bighearted donors. Below is a list of five I have learned about since coming on board last year that have really made an impression on me. In no particular order, here you go. 1.      Goats For Life – Honduras There’s […]


Nothing Grows Here Anymore but Hunger

Nothing Grows Here Anymore but Hunger

November 22, 2021July 29, 2014 Joy

When staff writer Bonnie Vanak travels, she meets many mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers in the depths of despair. She sits with them and listens as they share their struggles, their dreams and their prayers. Today, Bonnie shares the story of a mother she met in the mountains of Guatemala while on assignment with […]


A Friend of the Poor: Doug Bursch

A Friend of the Poor: Doug Bursch

November 22, 2021May 12, 2012 Robby

Doug Bursch is a man of many talents: he’s a pastor, columnist, blogger, teacher and radio host just to name a few. Doug is also a friend to the poor of Guatemala. He traveled to Guatemala with a team of radio hosts earlier this year to meet some of our brothers and sisters there. Since […]


You Answered a Family’s Prayers in Guatemala

You Answered a Family’s Prayers in Guatemala

November 22, 2021August 19, 2014 Joy

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 […]


A heart-to-heart

A heart-to-heart

November 22, 2021May 22, 2012 Megan

Food For The Poor staff photographer Benjamin Rusnak snapped this poignant photograph of Sister Edna Morales and a young friend in February 2011 during a visit to the FFP-supported nutritional center where she works. Guatemala has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the Western Hemisphere, and Sister Edna has been pivotal in running the […]


FFP Staff Profile: Helping Transform Lives

FFP Staff Profile: Helping Transform Lives

November 22, 2021January 6, 2015 Victoria Green

By Victoria Green In October of 2014, after having worked at Food For The Poor for just under three years, Natalie Hurtubise joined FFP’s Projects department as the Project Manager for Guatemala and El Salvador.


Thoughts on “A Day of Hope.”

Thoughts on “A Day of Hope.”

November 22, 2021June 7, 2012 Megan

A hearty “thank you” to Cleveland-area blogger Christine for the following post: A Day of Hope … My radio station has a donor graciously matching today’s (Wednesday, June 6) giving. Please go here to donate as little as $11, which will feed three children for a month. You can give a one-time gift, or a […]


More Than a Roof and Four Walls

More Than a Roof and Four Walls

November 22, 2021June 4, 2015 Joy

Joseph Hamaty is a Program Specialist in Food For The Poor’s Church and School Department, where he helps oversee the Operation Starfish and Combined Federal Campaign initiatives. Here he shares about a trip to the poor community of El Bejucal, Guatemala. We drove over treacherous terrain in a mountainous area of Guatemala called El Bejucal.  […]


From chicken coop to a real school

From chicken coop to a real school

November 22, 2021June 28, 2012 Victoria Green

Thanks to generous Food For The Poor donors, an isolated community in Guatemala that once relied on a chicken coop as a school will soon be getting the real thing. FFP Development Advisor Lisa Thompson shares the story of El Tabacal, now with a new school under construction: El Tabacal, located at 1,139 feet above […]


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