COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 18, 2011) —Christian music artist Don Moen’s six-city Canadian concert tour is finished, but the sounds and spirit of worship are living on in 11 new two-room homes in Haiti. Each night during the tour, Moen shared his message of need and hope, and generous audiences responded with donations to build […]
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Thanks to 13 Strangers, Homes are Being Built in Honduras
Thirteen members of Food For The Poor’s Journey of Hope mission group helped build 3 homes in Santa Barbara, Honduras. COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 6, 2011) — Just three months after a group of 13 strangers from varied backgrounds traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, with Food For The Poor, the group has generated enough […]
Office Staff Takes on Challenge to Build Homes in Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 24, 2011) — A large piece of cardboard, with cartoon-like images of a curvy street and houses made of pastel fabric is not something you’ll see in a world-famous museum. But this work of art, affectionately referred to as “the neighborhood,” is so much more. It represents compassion, creativity, and the […]
Father Chuck’s Legacy Transforms Lives in Haiti and Nicaragua
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 24, 2011) — Have you ever been hugged so tightly you could feel the other person’s heartbeat? Embraces full of gratitude welcomed Monsignor Francis X. Schmidt and residents from the Philadelphia area to villages in Haiti and Nicaragua that they have helped to transform with the relief and development organization Food […]
Students Build Homes in Haiti, Creating a Legacy
Teacher Greg Hayes and his class. COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 20, 2011) —At the same time Haitians came together to elect a new president, a government teacher in California challenged high school seniors to combine their talents through their curriculum to erect safe, permanent houses for destitute families in Haiti. Since the fall, two groups […]
Food For The Poor Celebrates 25 Years in Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 14, 2011) —When Food For The Poor first began its work in Haiti, the organization was responding to a cry for help for those living in subhuman conditions in the country’s largest and most dangerous slum, Cite Soleil located in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Five containers of rice were delivered in […]
Rebuilding Schools, Renewing Hope in Haiti
FFP is building four new schools in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 14, 2011) —The sounds of school bells ringing and children chatting away as they hurry off to class soon will be returning to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It’s been 17 months since a massive 7.0 magnitude quake tore apart the earth there, destroying everything […]
Food For The Poor Celebrates 20 Years of Service in Guyana
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 3, 2011) —Thanks to the continued support of Food For The Poor donors, the third-largest international relief and development agency in the United States will celebrate two decades of service to Guyana’s poor on Friday, June 3. Food For The Poor began working in Guyana in 1991, delivering food and other […]
Six Villages and Counting, Thanks to a Dedicated Parish
Fr. Richard Martin, pastor of Church of the Nativity in Burke, Va., thanked the staff of FFP for helping his parish help the destitute. COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 2, 2011) — For 13 years, Father Richard Martin, pastor of the Church of the Nativity in Burke, Va., has worked side by side with Food For […]
Homes for Haitians Builds Hope
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 27, 2011) — Hoisted high in the air, 11-year-old Rachel Wheeler caught her first glimpse on Wednesday of the Food For The Poor village she worked for two years to build. From above the crowd, Rachel could see the rows of vibrantly painted pink, blue and green homes, nestled along the […]