COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 13, 2017) It’s tempting to judge a person who’s been arrested and sent to prison. But the punishment doesn’t always fit the crime, especially in the Caribbean and Latin American prisons where overcrowding is a major problem. Food For The Poor’s Prison Ministry Program, which started in 1998, has helped to […]
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South Florida Businesses, Churches, Community Groups to Pack Meals for Haiti: Join The Pack to Raise Funds to Send 3 Million Meals
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 5, 2017) South Floridians young and old came together last June for a fun day focused on helping starving children and desperate families in Haiti. This April, they’ll have the chance to do so again at Food For The Poor’s second annual Join The Pack. Churches, businesses, community groups and philanthropic-minded […]
Boston-Area Girls Raise Money to Build Home in Honor of Slain Officer
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 30, 2017) Sean Collier’s lifelong goal was to help others. In death, the fallen police officer is doing just that for a destitute family in Nicaragua. Five Wilmington High School girls raised money over the last two years to build a Food For The Poor home in Nicaragua in Collier’s name. […]
UPDATE: Food For The Poor Provides Medicines, Treatment to Families in Haiti Cave
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 30, 2017) Haitian families discovered last week living in a cave for nearly six months are now receiving medical treatment as Food For The Poor continues to send regular deliveries of aid while working to build homes for all of them. A doctor accompanied a response team from the charity and […]
Food For The Poor Provides Aid to Families Found in Haiti Cave: Charity Building Homes for 240 People Whose Homes Were Destroyed by Hurricane
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 28, 2017) Food For The Poor is providing regular deliveries of aid to 240 people found last week living in a cave in the rugged mountains of southwest Haiti, where they had sought refuge nearly six months ago after Hurricane Matthew destroyed their homes. The relief goods, which include food, water […]
Boca Grande Reaches Fundraising Goal to Build 130 Homes in Gressier, Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 27, 2017) The Boca Grande Hope For Haitians has stepped up its home building mission in Haiti with the international relief and development organization Food For The Poor by funding one of its most ambitious home building projects since it began working through the charity in 2009. “I want to express […]
Desperate Families Found in Cave in Haiti, Months after Hurricane: Food For The Poor Launches Campaign to Provide Immediate Aid, Build Homes
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 23, 2017) A humanitarian crisis was revealed on Wednesday in Haiti as 240 people, including 84 women and 62 children, were found living in a cave by a Food For The Poor team in the rugged mountains near Fonds Rouge Dahere, where they have been since Hurricane Matthew hit the country’s […]
Palm Beach Sixth-Grader Uses Golfing Skills to Build School in Jamaica
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 21, 2017) Rafe Cochran,12, has been making a name for himself in the golfing world for more than half of his life, competing in local, regional and international tournaments, and even hosting his own golf classic to help build homes in Haiti through Food For The Poor. Now he’s turning his […]
Students in St. Lucia Reap the Benefits from the Work of Their Hands
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 20, 2017) Hundreds of students across the mountainous Caribbean island of St. Lucia have planted, watered and nurtured a variety of fruit trees that will provide nutritious food and essential income for years to come. “I am especially proud of this tree planting project in St. Lucia. The students there are […]
Urgent Food Crisis in Haiti Poses Threat to Poor: Crops Destroyed by Hurricane Matthew and Again by Drought After Replanting
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 16, 2017) A food shortage in the Grand’Anse region of southwest Haiti is so bad that families are turning in desperation to fruits and foliage known to be poisonous in an attempt to quell their hunger and save their lives, Food For The Poor has learned. At least 13 people already […]