JAMAICA (July 7, 2021) “The staging of the Rotary Club of Kingston’s 2021 golf tournament at the Caymanas Golf and Country Club raised its targeted $1 million to help finance two additional projects – a house for a homeless family in partnership with Food for the Poor and a water tank, with a pumping system, […]
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South Florida Haitian Community Mourns Death of President – wpbf.com
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (July 7, 2021) “Food For The Poor President and CEO Ed Raine said for the first time in weeks, members of his nonprofit agency were in Haiti on Sunday to deliver food. Raine said they dropped off ten 40-foot containers and two truckloads of food to four distribution centers.” To read […]
Access-To-Work Projects, Problems Facing Disabled Persons Raised with Govt – guyanatimesgy.com
GUYANA (July 2, 2021) “As plans are afoot to offer comprehensive training and development opportunities to persons with disabilities in Guyana, Human Services and Social Security Minister, Dr Vindhya Persaud on Wednesday met with representatives of the Disabled People’s Network (DPN).” To read more, click here.
BOOM Commits to Help Food For The Poor Build 10 More Houses – jamaica-star.com
JAMAICA (July 2, 2021) “The company made the announcement on Tuesday, during the construction of the final of 10 BOOM-sponsored houses under Food For The Poor’s (FFTP) COVID-19 campaign dubbed ‘Tan Ah Yuh Yard’.” To read more, click here.
Farfan and Mendes, Bakewell, Brian Ramphal, Vitality Inc and Dr Puran Singh Among Sponsors – guyanatimesgy.com
GUYANA (July 2, 2021) “The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) has embarked on one of its most ambitious projects – the construction of a home for one of its hardest working members and executives.” To read more, click here.
U.S. Grapples with Latin America and Caribbean Bureaucracies in COVID-19 Vaccine Rush – miamiherald.com
MIAMI, Fla. (July 2, 2021) “The Biden administration says it is fighting local bureaucracies across Latin America and the Caribbean in its rush to deliver coronavirus vaccine doses to its neighbors, where COVID-19 cases are spiking and where only one in 10 adults are fully vaccinated, according to the World Health Organization’s Americas regional office.” […]
Wisynco Looks to Reclaim Ground as COVID Restrictions Ease – jamaica-gleaner.com
JAMAICA (July 2, 2021) “Curfews and lockdowns caused the Jamaican economy to haemorrhage around 130,000 jobs in 2020, with unemployment running into double digit and poverty likely to have worsened from the 11 per cent registered in 2019′.” To read more, click here.
Food For The Poor’s Annual Boca Raton Gala New Hope New Beginnings to build much needed housing
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 17, 2009) – South Florida residents will gather at the Boca West Country Club, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, to help Food For The Poor, the largest international relief organization in the nation, build much needed housing for the destitute in the Caribbean and Latin America. The 15th annual gala, New Hope […]
Food For The Poor Organizes Prisoner Releases for Nonviolent Offenders
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 23, 2010) – As a child cries from hunger, desperate parents painfully search for food to save their children from death. If caught stealing a chicken to feed their family, parents in developing countries such as Haiti will be imprisoned without first appearing before a judge, or receiving a prison sentence. […]
Minnesota Twins Bless Communities Worlds Apart
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 14, 2010) – Identical twins Sydney and Whitney Johnson, 14, were inspired to raise money to build a house in Haiti – forever changing a destitute family’s life – after they heard a Food For The Poor speaker at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Fish Lake, in Prior Lake, Minn. “We were […]