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 […]
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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 […]
Hope For Haitians Holds Inaugural Bay Lavi “Give Life” Event in Geneva
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 15, 2017) Hope For Haitians invites you to attend the Bay Lavi (Give Life in Haitian Creole) Event to help build homes for families in Pistère, Haiti, which is located in the northern part of the country, 16 miles south of Cap Haitien. “Hope For Haitians is an amazing group of […]
Palm Beach Donors Raise Funds to Help Build School in Jamaica: One For Change Award Presented to Rafe Cochran, 12, for Serving the Poor
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 14, 2017) Generous supporters of Food For The Poor gathered March 3 for The One Event at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach to raise funds toward building a school in Mason Hall, Jamaica. More than 80 guests at The One Event enjoyed a cocktail reception, dinner, music and a silent […]
Dani Johnson Builds 500 Homes for Families in Nicaragua: Plans to Build More with Food For The Poor
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 13, 2017) One donor’s passion for the poor is making a great impact in the lives of the destitute in Nicaragua’s forgotten communities. Hundreds of families, who have lived for generations in flood zones, mining sites and on the outskirts of a garbage dump, have received the gift of safe and […]