Why Children in Latin America and the Caribbean Face Malnutrition and How You Can Help Malnutrition harms children in lasting ways. It slows growth, weakens the immune system, and makes learning difficult. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, many families face extreme poverty that leaves their children without the nutrition they need. Food For The […]
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Where We Serve: Food For The Poor’s Work Across Latin America & the Caribbean
When you picture daily life in Latin America and the Caribbean, the beauty of vibrant cultures and landscapes often comes to mind. But behind this beauty, millions of families face urgent challenges: hunger, unsafe housing, limited access to clean water, and few opportunities to break free from poverty. In this blog, you’ll discover: • The 15 […]
What Charity is the Best for Sponsoring a Child?
Are you considering sponsoring a child? In this blog, you will discover why Food For The Poor’s Angels Of Hope program is one of the most trusted and impactful child sponsorship options available. You will learn: • How the child sponsorship program works and what your sponsorship provides• Why Food For The Poor focuses on […]
How Charities Help Resolve Child Malnutrition
Child malnutrition is a severe issue in Latin America and the Caribbean. Food security is fragile in countries such as Guatemala and Haiti, presenting enormous challenges for charities wishing to help. Through constructive partnerships Food For The Poor ensures children receive proper nutrition and have a fighting chance at recovery. How critical is good nutrition […]
Sustainable Development: 4 Ways To Build Lives and a Better Future
The concept of sustainable development is not new. It emerged in the 1980s as a solution to the challenge of meeting the material needs of today’s global population while maintaining the quality of the environment for following generations. Beyond protecting the environment, sustainable development focuses on empowering impoverished people and communities and helping them to […]
How Partnerships Help Build Safe Housing
The statistics reflect the grim reality: According to the Inter-American Development Bank, a funding source for development throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, nearly half of residents in the region live in ”unsuitable housing built with precarious materials or without basic amenities.” The houses, which are typically rudimentary shacks assembled from scraps of wood, tin […]
Supporting Impoverished Families Through Sustainable Housing Solutions
Living in a flimsy shack likely to collapse with a well-placed kick is no way for children to grow and thrive. Since its inception in 1982, Food For The Poor has been helping families living in poverty by building safe, secure homes. Thanks to our generous donors, we have completed more than 93,600 homes for […]
What can caring people do to provide medical care for an innocent child?
In Guatemala, the chances of survival were slim for a sweet baby named Marcela because of ectopia cordis, a rare condition in which a baby is born with a heart partially or entirely outside the chest cavity. Only 8 of every 1 million babies have ectopia cordis, and 90 percent die within three days of […]
What is child sponsorship at Food For The Poor?
A unique way to sponsor a child Food For The Poor is one of the best charities you can choose for child sponsorship. Through our Angels Of Hope child sponsorship program, children living in established group homes with loving caretakers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America are given the critical resources every child needs. In […]
A Vision for Haiti
Each day, Food For The Poor Board Member Dr. Lynne Nasrallah contemplates the “Stations of the Cross” – the 14 stations that guide believers through the steps taken by Jesus from his condemnation to his burial and resurrection.