Archives: Press Releases

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 29, 2015) – The Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation (DMANF) will recognize Food For The Poor with the coveted 2015 Nonprofit Organization of the Year Award at the DMANF’s New York Nonprofit Conference on August 4-5. Food For The Poor Executive Director Angel Aloma will receive the award on behalf of […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 21, 2015) — A Chicago couple committed to saving lives in Haiti recently traveled to the island nation with Food For The Poor to see firsthand how funds raised at their 10th annual event in Streamwood, Illinois, will help modernize the Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For 10 years, the […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 15, 2015) – Today, Food For The Poor President/CEO Robin Mahfood traveled to Fond Bayard on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as part of an aid delivery mission from the charity’s Haiti office and warehouse in Port-au-Prince. More than 30,000 people now make up the influx of people […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 15, 2015) – The incredible outpouring of love that parents in Lake Worth, Florida, received after the sudden loss of their son a year ago has inspired a new purpose in their lives, and a strong desire to comfort others. “We have been blessed with so much love from the people […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 14, 2015) Today, Food For The Poor CEO/President Robin Mahfood greeted Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly, and Taiwan’s President, Ma Ying-jeou at the relief organization’s facility in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the first shipment of 2,400 metric tons of rice has arrived. The rice is a gift from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 14, 2015) – The children in Food For The Poor’s Angels Of Hope program are receiving loving care in 139 orphanages throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Since 2008, the children in Angels Of Hope have been encouraged to express themselves through art, showcasing their creative use of color and artistic […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 7, 2015) – As numbers of desperate people are reported to grow along the Haiti/D.R. border, the relief and development organization Food For The Poor is responding to an urgent request for help with food, water, hygiene supplies and baby-care items. Today, the charity is working to send a doctor to […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 6, 2015) – Residents from the Rockford/Chicago, Illinois area traveled to Haiti, June 8-11 with Food For The Poor, to inaugurate two villages. Pope Francis Friendship Village in Dumas, Haiti, was the first village for the group to inaugurate. It was partially built with proceeds from the Hope for Haitians Board […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 29, 2015) – Today, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Food For The Poor headquarters in Coconut Creek, Fla. Ray H.W. Mou, Director-General of the Department of NGO International Affairs, is no stranger to the relief and development organization. When he served as the Director General of the Taipei Economic and […]

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 26, 2015) – A week before Anthony ‘Tony’ Pestritto celebrated his 89th birthday, he traveled to Haiti with Food For The Poor to fulfill a promise he made to students at last fall’s inauguration of Grand Boulage School. “The kids are enthused and excited about learning,” said Pestritto, a resident of […]