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COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 26, 2020) – A recent surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in Florida is putting more pressure on organizations that serve the state’s most vulnerable communities. Food For The Poor, its longtime partner Matthew 25: Ministries and the Knights of Columbus Florida State Council have teamed up this week to assist […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 24, 2020) Food For The Poor’s National Celebration — We Are One is a virtual event bringing the charity’s supporters together to help hungry families devastated by the coronavirus pandemic in the Caribbean and Latin America. The event will be livestreamed online from 7 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 13, from […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 19, 2020) Food For The Poor is taking steps to feed the poor by hosting its Virtual Walk/Run For Hunger, which starts June 20 and ends on July 18. Participants across the country will have an opportunity to reach a goal of providing 336,000 lifesaving meals, for families affected by the […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 12, 2020) Yesterday, Church of the Nativity Pastor Fr. Robert C. Cilinski presented Food For The Poor President/CEO Ed Raine with the donation from this year’s Operation Starfish® campaign, not in person, but symbolically via a video prayer service with the charity’s staff. “I am honored to present to Food For […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 28, 2020) The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season starts Monday, June 1, and the probability of having to deal with a multi-crisis event is a real possibility for the poor in the countries served by Food For The Poor. The charity is getting ready. “Preparation has always been key for this organization, […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 27, 2020) Food For The Poor is responding to spiking hunger and poverty due to the coronavirus in the countries it serves, where already dire conditions are becoming even worse. Since mid-March, the charity has sent more than 300 tractor-trailer loads of aid, including food, personal hygiene items, medical supplies, medicine, […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 19, 2020) Indigenous Guatemalan women are using sewing skills gained through a partnership with Food For The Poor to sew masks for U.S. healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Factories in Guatemala have been closed due to the government lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 18, 2020) Food For The Poor is teaming up with Matthew 25: Ministries and the Florida State Council of the Knights of Columbus to help families throughout Florida affected by the coronavirus pandemic. A 53-foot tractor-trailer load of essential goods was delivered last Wednesday to St. Bonaventure Church, in Davie, which […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 14, 2020) More than 6 million meals will feed hungry families affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the Caribbean and Latin America, thanks to the generous support of Food For The Poor donors on #GivingTuesdayNow. Food supplies are dwindling fast as people in the countries served by the charity are sheltering […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 11, 2020) Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the United States, executed new sustainable development strategies to help the poor in 2019. At the same time, the charity forged new relationships with the Episcopal, Baptist and Catholic churches to help the Bahamas recover […]