COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 3, 2021) More than 100 homes will be built for families in desperate need of shelter in the countries where Food For The Poor serves, thanks to donors who generously supported the charity’s #GivingTuesday campaign. Donors gave enough funds to provide 115 homes plus $2.2 million worth of MannaPack rice meals […]
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#GivingTuesday 2021: Food For The Poor Joins Global Movement to Raise Funds for Housing, Food
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 23, 2021) In a year when inflation and surging food prices are deepening the pain for struggling families in the countries where the charity serves, Food For The Poor’s participation in the annual #GivingTuesday campaign is even more important. The charity’s goal is to raise funds to build homes for families […]
Food For The Poor Gift Catalog: Avoid the Snarled Supply Chain, Honor Loved Ones with a Gift for the Less Fortunate
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 18, 2021) Holiday shoppers can avoid the delays and uncertainty of the tangled supply chain by purchasing a gift from the Food For The Poor Christmas Gift Catalog in honor of a loved one and being a blessing to a child or a family in need. “Our Christmas Gift Catalog offers […]
Food For The Poor Donates $10,000 Each to Two Local Charities, Helps Struggling Families Have a Happy Thanksgiving
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 17, 2021) The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the supply chain and food prices across the nation, making it more challenging for families already struggling financially to put food on the table this Thanksgiving. Food For The Poor helped to make the burden a little lighter on Wednesday by presenting $10,000 checks […]
A Miracle for Marcela: Text to FFTP Leads to Guatemalan Infant’s Lifesaving Surgery in the U.S.
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 17, 2021) A Univision news story in June about a baby born in Guatemala with a life-threatening heart condition resonated so profoundly with a Fort Lauderdale hair stylist that she recorded the broadcast on her cell phone and texted it to a client who works at Food For The Poor, imploring […]
Women in Honduras Earn Truck-Driving Certification On the Road to Brighter Future
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 11, 2021) Seven women who are among the 15 graduates of a driving school in Honduras funded by Food For The Poor donors are on the road to obtaining well-paying jobs as truck drivers to support their families. The women recently completed four months of training at the Puerto Cortes Transportation […]
Hurricanes Eta and Iota One Year Later: FFTP Donors Restore Homes, Businesses, Crops in Honduras, Nicaragua
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 10, 2021) Families in Honduras are once again sleeping in their own homes while farmers in Nicaragua are replanting their crops, all with the help of Food For The Poor donors, one year after back-to-back hurricanes devastated both countries. The community of Juan Orlando Hernández in Honduras was one of the […]
Food For The Poor Dedicates Home in Memory of Gen. Colin Powell
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 5, 2021) As Gen. Colin L. Powell’s family, friends, and Congressional and military leaders bid him farewell today in a private service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Food For The Poor is paying tribute to him with the dedication of a home presented to a needy family in Jamaica. […]
Miami-Dade County, MSC Foundation Team Up With FFTP To Help Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 1, 2021) Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, PortMiami and MSC Foundation partnered with Food For The Poor on Wednesday to pack lifesaving aid in response to the ongoing crisis in Haiti. Nearly three dozen volunteers traveled to the charity’s Coconut Creek warehouse to sort and pack 1,782 pounds of food, 182 […]
Miami Marlins, CITY Furniture Donate Mattresses for Haiti Quake Relief
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Oct. 29, 2021) The Miami Marlins and CITY Furniture are teaming up to donate 128 Tempur Sealy twin mattresses to Food For The Poor to help families in Haiti who lost everything in the August 14 earthquake. Nearly 53,000 homes were destroyed and another 77,000 sustained heavy damage in Haiti’s southern peninsula. […]