Fighting Extreme Poverty

Fighting Extreme Poverty
15 Latin American and Caribbean Countries

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Building Stronger Communities Together

Delivering Aid
in Latin America and the Caribbean

Food For The Poor’s approach to delivering aid across Latin America and the Caribbean combines immediate relief with long-term development. In times of crisis, Food For The Poor mobilizes emergency shipments of food, medicine, and essential supplies, working closely with government agencies, international organizations, and in-country partners to ensure aid reaches those most in need.

Beyond emergency response, Food For The Poor invests in sustainable solutions—including housing, education, health care, water projects, and livelihood programs—that empower families and strengthen local economies. By tailoring its efforts to each country’s unique challenges and leveraging partnerships at every level, Food For The Poor ensures that its aid not only meets urgent needs but also builds resilience and hope for the future.

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Our Partners and Their Role in the Aid Distribution

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In-Country Partners

Food For The Poor collaborates with in-country partners, such as local organizations, churches, universities, colleges, and nonprofits that operate within the country. These partnerships are essential because:

  • They are based locally in the communities where aid is delivered.
  • They bring deep knowledge of local culture, needs, and logistics.
  • They support the distribution of supplies, manage projects, and engage directly with communities.
  • They provide long-term presence, ensuring programs remain sustainable and accountable long after outside teams have left.
2
International Organizations

Food For The Poor partners with international organizations to strengthen its ability to deliver aid effectively and sustainably across multiple countries.

  • Access to resources: International partners, such as the World Food Programme, USAID, and Feed My Starving Children, provide supply chains and technical expertise.
  • Specialized knowledge: They bring expertise in health care, nutrition, disaster response, and infrastructure.
  • Best practices: Partnerships ensure programs follow global standards and humanitarian benchmarks.
  • Efficiency: Coordination with international groups reduces duplication of efforts in countries where multiple aid organizations operate.
  • Capacity building: These partners offer training, research, and monitoring systems to strengthen program impact.
  • Sustainability: Their support enables Food For The Poor to move beyond short-term relief and advance long-term, sustainable development solutions.
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Governmental Organizations

Governmental organizations play a central role in ensuring that aid and development efforts are effective and sustainable. Food For The Poor works closely with governments because they provide:

  • Efficient regulation: They regulate imports, customs, and shipping, ensuring donated food, medicine, and supplies are cleared quickly and legally.
  • Needs identification: Ministries, such as health, education, agriculture, and housing help identify priority needs and the most vulnerable populations.
  • Strategic collaboration: Collaboration prevents duplication of efforts and ensures that Food For The Poor’s programs align with national development plans.
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Gifts in Kind Partners

Gifts in Kind (GIK) partners are organizations, corporations, and manufacturers who donate products instead of cash—helping Food For The Poor serve millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Essential supplies: GIK partners supply food, medicine, medical equipment, clothing, building materials, school supplies, and household items.
  • Cost savings: These donations greatly reduce costs, allowing Food For The Poor to stretch donor dollars further.
  • Efficient shipping: Donated goods are consolidated into containers and shipped to partner countries.
  • Local distribution: Once in-country, items are distributed through Food For The Poor’s church networks, NGOs, and community groups, ensuring they reach families in need.
  • Corporate repurposing: Partnerships with businesses also allow companies to repurpose surplus or overstock goods for humanitarian use.
  • Strengthening programs: GIK contributions strengthen Food For The Poor’s core program areas, including hunger relief and nutrition, community development, health, education, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
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Impact Investors

Impact investors supply funding that goes beyond short-term relief, helping Food For The Poor build long-term solutions.

  • Dual focus: Seek both social impact and financial return, aligning with Food For The Poor’s mission to lift communities out of poverty.
  • Scalable programs: Support income-generating initiatives, such as Haitian peanut farming and aquaculture projects.
  • Strengthening local economies: Create jobs and grow small businesses, reducing dependence on aid and fostering family self-reliance.
  • Expanding networks: Bring in business leaders, innovators, and philanthropists, multiplying Food For The Poor’s capacity to tackle poverty from many angles.



Food For The Poor: Transforming Lives Across 15 Nations

Guatemala Serve

Guatemala

Make a meaningful impact in the lives of Guatemalans in need by shopping our gift catalog to provide essential resources, education, and healthcare. Every contribution brings hope, nourishment, and empowerment to individuals and communities.

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Haiti serve

Haiti

Haiti's violence has forced 360,000 people out of their homes, requiring Food For The Poor's distribution centers to restock and ship more containers to address food insecurity and prepare recovery efforts for internally displaced families.

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Costa Rica Aid

Honduras

Make a meaningful impact in the lives of families in Honduras. Fund our aid programs covering urgent or essential assistance. Together, we can empower our program participants to become self-sufficient and build stronger communities through development.

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jamaica serve

Jamaica

Help us fund Jamaica's journey out of poverty with a donation. Together we can empower families to become self-sufficient and build stronger communities through sustainable development.

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colombia serve

Colombia

Fund operations for hunger and poverty relief among Colombian families, empowering them to become self-sufficient and build stronger communities through sustainable development, making a meaningful impact in their lives.

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Dominican Republic Serve

Dominican Republic

Donate to support the Dominican Republic’s journey toward poverty alleviation by empowering families to become self-sufficient and strengthening communities through sustainable development, paving the way to a better quality of life.

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El salvador serve

EI Salvador

Help us fund Salvadorians' journey out of poverty with a donation. Browse through our gift catalog to provide immediate relief, bolster self-reliance, or bring hope. Poverty in El Salvador can be overcome. Your donation will go straight to the most impoverished communities.

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Ecuador serve

Ecuador

Help us fund Ecuador's journey out of poverty with a donation. Together, we can empower families to become self-sufficient and build stronger communities through sustainable development. Poverty in Ecuador can be overcome.

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Bolivia Aid

Bolivia

Help us fund Bolivia's journey out of poverty with a donation. Together, we can empower families to become self-sufficient and build stronger communities through sustainable development. Poverty in Bolivia can be overcome.

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Grenada Serve

Grenada

Some of Grenada’s most severe poverty can be found on former estates, where barracks-like accommodations are still used by laborers. In such communities, housing conditions are often extremely rudimentary, with no access to sanitation or other basic services.

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Guyana serve

Guyana

Guyana experiences high emigration and brain drain, with 39% of all Guyanese citizens currently residing abroad and roughly half of all Guyanese with a tertiary education having emigrated to the United States, according to The World Bank.

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Dominican Republic Aid

Panama

Panama is a compact nation that has seen continuous economic growth. Despite this progress, poverty and income inequality persist stubbornly, particularly affecting rural indigenous areas and Afro-Panamanian communities, according to the World Bank.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Food For The Poor ships containers filled with essential goods to families in need in St. Lucia and provides additional poverty-alleviation support as needs arise. Saint Lucia measures 606 square miles, about five times the size of Washington, D.C.

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Peru serve

Peru

Peru struggles with rising numbers of families living in multidimensional poverty due to the convergence of COVID-19, conflict, and climate change. More than half of the population lives in areas that are highly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change.

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Trinidad and Tobago Aid

Trinidad and Tobago

A developing nation composed of two islands, Trinidad and Tobago is located at the southern end of the Caribbean chain of islands, just north of Venezuela. Despite its beautiful landscapes and beaches, the nation suffers from widespread poverty.

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Facts from our Annual Reports about Our Hunger and Poverty relief Programs

2023

  • Focus: Water programs, Multi-Country Partnerships, Disaster Reliefs.
  • New Initiatives: “Generating Opportunities For Enterprising Youths” Teaming up with Entreculturas, we'll empower 2,900+ at-risk youth in Guatemala.,El Salvador., & Honduras. with education & income prospects.
  • Volunteer Program: 65 volunteers weekly packed 17,600+ Family Food Kits, providing over 70,500 meals.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $360 million worth of aid in 2,528 tractor-trailers.

2022

  • Focus: Partnerships, disaster relief, and community development.
  • New Initiatives: Acceso partnership for farmer training and market access, expansion of feeding programs in Haiti, Colombia, and El Salvador.
  • Disaster Relief: Support for Ukraine, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Southwest Florida.
  • Volunteer Program: Increased participation with 872 volunteers contributing 2,772 hours.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $386 million worth of aid in 2,691 tractor-trailers.

2021

  • Focus: Sustainable livelihood solutions, education, and health care.
  • New Programs: Bees for New Growth in Haiti, Seeds to Smiles bean production program in Nicaragua.
  • Community Development: Building sustainable communities with resources and infrastructure.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $790.4 million worth of aid in 3,402 tractor-trailers.

2020

  • Focus: COVID-19 response, disaster relief, and housing.
  • Highlights: Built 1,872 homes and distributed food and medical supplies related to COVID-19 and hurricanes Eta & Iota.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $750.6 million worth of aid in 3,157 tractor-trailers.

2019

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, and health care.
  • Highlights: Provided over 20 million meals per month, built 3,113 homes, and shipped 660 tractor-trailers of medicine and medical supplies.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $750.6 million worth of aid in 3,157 tractor-trailers.

2018

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, and health care.
  • Highlights: Provided over 25 million meals per month, built 4,253 homes, built, repaired, or expanded 58 schools, and shipped 611 tractor-trailers of medicine and medical supplies.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $833.8 million worth of aid in 4,541 tractor-trailers.

2017

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, health care, and disaster relief.
  • Highlights: Provided 1.2 million meals per day, built 7,582 housing units, and distributed aid to Dominica, Puerto Rico, St Lucia, Antigua, and St. Thomas after hurricanes.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $843.5 million worth of aid in 4,232 tractor-trailers.

2016

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, health care, and disaster relief.
  • Highlights: Distributed 617 million meals to malnourished children and families, built 9,430 housing units, and provided relief aid to Haiti after Hurricane Matthew.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $876 million worth of aid in 4,095 tractor-trailers.

2015

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, and health care.
  • Highlights: Distributed over 56 million pounds of food, built 9,431 housing units, and supported 5,212 children through the Angels of Hope program.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $1.06 billion worth of aid in 3,660 tractor-trailers.

2014

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, and health care.
  • Highlights: Distributed over 52 million pounds of food to malnourished children and families, built 7,367 housing units, and supported 3,270 children through the Angels of Hope program.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $814 million worth of aid in 3,914 tractor-trailers.

2013

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, and health care.
  • Highlights Distributed over 50 million pounds of food to malnourished children and families, built 6,808 housing units, supported education by building/rebuilding 33 schools and shipping school supplies.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $944 million worth of aid in 3,518 tractor-trailers.

2012

  • Focus: Feeding programs, housing, education, and health care.
  • Highlights: Distributed over 67 million pounds of food to malnourished children and families, built 6,805 housing units, and supported education by building/rebuilding 37 schools.
  • Total Aid Distributed: $811 million worth of aid in 3,414 trailers.