During the past year, Rachel Wheeler, 10, has raised money to construct 12 concrete double-unit houses with access to sanitation and potable water in Leogane, Haiti. Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States will be building these homes in this very poor coastal community. The country’s dire […]
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Hope Takes Root in Haiti
To celebrate Haiti’s Labor Day, more than 1,500 people planted more than 25,000 trees high up in the mountains of Mahotière, which is just south of Port-au-Prince. Now Mahotière, the farm community where the trees were planted, has a strong head start to combat the heavy deforestation, soil erosion and hunger that have become the […]
Agreement Yields Computers for Students
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 7, 2010) – Millions of students in the Caribbean and Latin America will gain access to computers after the signing of an agreement this week between Food For The Poor and the United Nations Information and Technology Corps (ITCO). The signing was part of “The Future of Technology & Education in […]
College Students Raise Awareness and Funds to Build a Second School in Jamaica
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 4, 2010) – For the second year in a row, members of Lynn University’s Students For The Poor lived in tents and fasted, as well as sponsored a public forum in order to bring attention to the desperate living conditions of those who remain homeless and in need throughout Haiti. For […]
Clinton Global Initiative University 2010 Inspires College Students
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 3, 2010) – Former President Bill Clinton announced last month that more than 290,000 people worldwide would be impacted positively by the commitments of college students nationwide at the third-annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU). Among those chosen to attend the meeting at the University of Miami were Miami Dade College […]
Radio Listeners Support Station and Help Haiti’s Children
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 3, 2010) – Friends of WLRN reached out to Food For The Poor by hosting a distinctive fundraising drive for the nonprofit organization. For the first time in WLRN’s fundraising history, it partnered with a charity to raise money for both the station and for charity. Usually, supporters who donate during […]
Jamaican Consulate Helps to Serve the Poor in Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 29, 2010) – The Consulate General of Jamaica presented a donation to the United State’s largest international charity, Food For The Poor, for their relief efforts in Haiti. Food For The Poor’s President/CEO, Robin Mahfood, accepted the gift from Consul General Sandra Grant-Griffiths. After their meeting, Mahfood gave the Consul General, […]
Nonprofit Uses Computers to Fight Poverty
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 30, 2010) – By the middle of May, every orphanage in Food For The Poor’s Angels Of Hope program will have computers for the children who live there. Recognizing that education and technology are crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty, the largest international charity in the United States has shipped […]
Conference Targets Twin Pillars of Education & Technology
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 28, 2010) – Food For The Poor will join the InfoPoverty Institute and The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FunGlode) in presenting a conference on May 4 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to raise awareness of the need for technology in fighting poverty, and to make commitments to improve education […]
Bid On a Worthy Gift That Gives Twice
“Bid For The Poor” is Food For The Poor’s premiere online auction. Beginning May 5 you can bid on more than 100 items at www.foodforthepoor.org/auction. Proceeds will go directly to help build a vocational center for the women of Tabacal, Guatemala. Looking for that perfect gift for Father’s Day, or perhaps for the grad on […]