COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (August 12, 2022) Twins David and Jonathan Tamen soon will begin their first year of college, but the brothers already are making a difference, both in Haiti and here at home in South Florida. On International Youth Day, observed each year on August 12, Food For The Poor recognizes the generosity and achievements […]
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Haiti Earthquake One Year Later: Bigger Crisis Looms
FFTP Responds to Urgent Need to Feed Children, Families and Prisoners in Crisis COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (August 11, 2022) As Haiti looks back one year to a devastating earthquake, the challenges in the country are even greater and Food For The Poor is responding with urgently needed food for prisoners at risk of starvation, for families […]
FFTP Hearts United Community Day: Urgent Need for Toys and School Supplies to Fulfill Children’s Wishes
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (August 5, 2022) Food For The Poor is in urgent need of toys and school supplies for thousands of children who live in the charity’s donor-supported Angels Of Hope children’s homes in the Caribbean and Latin America. FFTP is hosting its second Hearts United Community Day on Saturday, Aug. 20, to collect and […]
Natalie Grant to Perform at FFTP’s National Celebration – We Are One to Help Starving Families
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (August 1, 2022) Top Christian recording artist Natalie Grant is the featured performer for Food For The Poor’s National Celebration – We Are One as the charity aims to raise funds to provide 10 million meals for desperate families who don’t know when or where they will get their next meal. The virtual […]
FFTP Volunteers Pack More Than 116,000 Meals to Help Ukraine
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 27, 2022) More than 450 volunteers filled FAU Arena Saturday to help Food For The Poor pack 116,640 lifesaving MannaPack rice meals for children and families in desperate need in Ukraine. FFTP teamed up with longtime partner Feed My Starving Children to host Join The Pack Ukraine, drawing South Florida churches, businesses, […]
CEPUDO Partner Joining Food For The Poor to Pack Meals for Ukraine
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 14, 2022) CEPUDO President Linda Coello has witnessed firsthand how MannaPack rice meals have saved the lives of families in desperate need in her own country of Honduras. When she heard about Ukraine’s plight and Food For The Poor’s mission to pack meals for families there, she knew she wanted to be […]
Food For The Poor, Minuto de Dios Inaugurate Homes for Families in Colombia
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 5, 2022) Twenty families in Granada, Colombia, have reason to hope for a brighter future and an opportunity to lift themselves and future generations out of poverty. It starts with a new roof over their heads, provided by Food For The Poor donors and trusted partner Minuto de Dios. The 20 newest […]
Food For The Poor Needs Volunteers to Pack Meals for Ukraine
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 23, 2022) Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the situation has become more dire for families forced to leave their homes and, in many cases, flee the country. One out of three households in Ukraine is food insecure, according to the United Nations World Food Programme. Food insecurity is defined broadly as […]
Have a Heart for Marcela: Food For The Poor Revives Campaign
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 22, 2022) Last fall, with the help of Food For The Poor donors, Baby Marcela, of El Progreso, Guatemala, had surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital to correct a life-threatening heart condition. Now healthier and stronger, she will return to Boston in August for a second procedure and once again she needs FFTP’s […]
Nativity’s Operation Starfish Gift to FFTP Will Build 13th Village in Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 16, 2022) Nativity Catholic Church Pastor Fr. Robert C. Cilinski today presented Food For The Poor President/CEO Ed Raine with a donation of more than $500,000 from this year’s Operation Starfish® campaign to build 65 new homes in Bas Fossé, Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Due to ongoing concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the […]
