COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 9, 2021) Food For The Poor is responding to an anticipated urgent need for aid by airfreighting disaster relief kits to help families in reach of the erupting St. Vincent volcano La Soufrière. Roughly 16,000 people live in the designated zone and require evacuation, according to news reports and in-country partners. […]
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FFTP, San Antonio Area Foundation Deliver Aid to Families
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 6, 2021) Essential household goods from Food For The Poor in partnership with Matthew 25: Ministries are being distributed to vulnerable families in San Antonio, Texas, to help them recover from a record-breaking winter storm in February. The San Antonio Area Foundation worked with the San Antonio Food Bank to distribute […]
Caribbean and Latin American Prisons Hot Zones for COVID-19: Food For The Poor Pays Fines, Frees 138 Nonviolent Offenders for Holy Week
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 1, 2021) Despite challenges, Food For The Poor is keeping its Holy Week tradition, by paying the fines of 138 nonviolent offenders from prisons in Guyana, Haiti, Honduras and Jamaica. In Jamaica, one year into the coronavirus pandemic, there are nearly 39,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to Worldometer.info, a website […]
Palm Beach Teen Preps for Annual Charity Golf Tournament
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 31, 2021) Health and safety standards won’t be in the rough at the fifth annual Rafe Cochran Golf Classic that’s scheduled for Saturday, April 17, at Banyan Cay Resort & Golf, West Palm Beach, Fla. Postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, 16-year-old Rafe is eager to see the return […]
Haitian Community Honors Longtime FFTP Donor
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 29, 2021) On March 25, dozens of guests attended the Ravine Sèche Tribute and Discovery Ceremony at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Longtime Food For The Poor donor Ben Scott, who built his first Friendship Village through FFTP a decade ago in Pierre Payen, was one of four people honored […]
FFTP, Churches in Dallas Deliver Aid to Families Affected by Winter Storm
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 18, 2021) Although North Texas has thawed from a record-breaking winter storm in February, the needs of vulnerable families have not disappeared. As the power returned and temperatures warmed, pipes burst, flooding homes and leaving many without running water. On top of the already challenging COVID-19 pandemic, others who rely on […]
Food For The Poor, Minuto de Dios Provide Homes, Foundation to Lift Families: First Joint Sustainable Community Development Inaugurated in Colombia
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 16, 2021) For 60 families displaced by years of conflicts in Colombia, the gift of a home is the foundation that will put them and future generations on the path out of poverty. The first 20 homes of Palma Real were inaugurated in Granada on March 5, part of the first […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Anniversary: Food For The Poor Responds Internationally and in U.S.
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 11, 2021) As new cases of COVID-19 have declined in the worst spots around the world, they’re still rising in places like Jamaica, one year into a pandemic that has devastated economies in the most vulnerable countries and pushed tens of thousands of people into food lines to be able to […]
Food For The Poor Partnership Transforms Schools in El Salvador
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 2, 2021) As many as 40,000 students in El Salvador will benefit from a major new initiative to transform 100 schools in the most vulnerable communities through a partnership between Food For The Poor and three other organizations. Drug prevention education will be a major component of the program, aimed at […]
International Women’s Day 2021: Empowering Women Learning a New Trade in Honduras
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 1, 2021) Women in Honduras, struggling to provide for their families, are losing economic opportunities because they do not have the certification needed to obtain one of the many well-paying jobs driving trucks. Many women who enrolled at the Puerto Cortes Transportation School have been forced to withdraw to work temporary […]