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Food For The Poor has started construction on a housing village in Haiti dedicated to the 12 Lynn University students and two faculty members who were on a Haiti mission trip when the devastating earthquake struck. The “Journey of Hope Memorial Village” will offer friends and family members the opportunity to visit Haitian families like […]

Daniel–Gérard Rouzier, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Food For The Poor-Haiti, was honored as a Joe Jackson Industry Champion Award recipient by DuPont Performance Coatings at a business conference last month in Orlando. Rouzier was recognized for his selfless act to arrange and provide proper burials to an estimated 2,500 earthquake victims. In […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 12, 2010) –The Florida Marlins are teaming up with Food For The Poor to raise funds and awareness for Haiti. It has been six months since the Jan. 12 earthquake devastated the Port-au-Prince, Haiti area. “Homes for Haiti” is a month-long fundraising campaign between the baseball team and Food For The […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 9, 2010) –Food For The Poor has sent more than $100 million worth of aid to Haiti, since the 7.0 Magnitude earthquake devastated the country on Jan. 12. The organization responded immediately and help has flowed continually from the largest international charity in the United States. That aid has come in […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 6, 2010) –Bake sales, birthday savings and pet-sitting jobs are just a few ways six siblings in Rome, Ga., worked together to build a home and latrine for a destitute family in Haiti through the international relief and development organization, Food For The Poor. “Over time, the savings did add up,” […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 6, 2010) –Kansas City businessman, Joe Roetheli, traveled by plane, motorboat and car earlier this month to reach the remote Essequibo Coast, in Guyana, to inaugurate a third self-sustaining village commissioned in partnership with Food For The Poor. After an adventure that included crossing Guyana’s largest river, the travelers were greeted […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 6, 2010) –United Way Worldwide, United Way for Southeastern Michigan and the United Auto Workers have donated four trucks to Food For The Poor. The trucks will be used to deliver lifesaving food, medicine and critically needed housing supplies in Haiti. Since the Jan. 12 earthquake, rubble has made the roads […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 30, 2010) –Food For The Poor has used grant money from the United Way of Miami-Dade to build homes in Haiti, and provide food and emergency relief assistance to earthquake victims. The joint disaster relief fund, Operation Helping Hands, was created by United Way of Miami-Dade and The Miami Herald/ el […]

ATLANTA (June 24, 2010) –Philanthropic-minded residents and sponsors unite to host the third annual Atlanta Food For The Poor event, New Hope, New Beginnings, Friday, Sept. 10, at the W Atlanta – Buckhead. “Proceeds from this year’s event will help families break the generational cycle of poverty by building schools in Jamaica – providing communities […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 21, 2010) –Members of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem in Palm Beach recently donated money to equip a Food For The Poor fishing village in Haiti with a fiberglass boat and engine in memory of their friend and comrade, Ann Marie Briere, who died Monday, Feb. 22. The […]