Tessanne Chin is pictured holding the trophy she won for winning Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice. Related Item: Donate to Help Build Homes COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (January 28, 2014) –Tessanne Chin, winner of Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice, is sure to bring the audience to their feet at Food For The Poor’s annual […]
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Families are Beginning to Live Again, Four Years after Haiti Quake
Christella, 14, who lives in Grand Boulage, Haiti, now has access to clean drinking water that’s being pumped from a well provided by Food For The Poor donors. Since the 2010 earthquake, Food For The Poor has installed 71 water filtration units that purify 710,000 gallons of water each day, and drilled 257 water wells. […]
Gift of Life-Saving Water Transforms Lives of Haiti’s School Children
Founders of the “Do Much Good” coalition (l to r) Steve Deace, Stephen Baldwin, Dani Johnson and Kevin McCullough, traveled to Haiti with Food For The Poor’s Radio Marketing department. Related Items: See More Photos on Facebook Help Families in Kadwa COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 9, 2014) – Hundreds of Haiti’s students, attending three schools […]
VOICE Star Tessanne Chin Lends Her Talents to Food For The Poor
Tessanne Chin Related Item: Reserve Your Gala Table See Tessanne’s Celebrity Champion Page COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 9, 2014) – The winner of Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice, Tessanne Chin, will sing at Food For The Poor’s Building Hope Gala, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 at The Polo Club of Boca Raton. Tessanne will perform […]
Boca Grande Committee Remains Committed to Helping Poor in Haiti
In November 2013, Yvette Mede and her three children in Manneville, Haiti received a new two-room house with sanitation and a cistern. Related Items: See More Photos on Facebook Donate to Boca Grande’s Project COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 6, 2014) – A joyful noise is slowly drowning out the sounds of despair that once hovered […]
UPS Partners with Food For The Poor for Projects in Dominican Republic
The community of Rancho Nuevo is in dire need of potable water. The majority of the residents there are currently getting their drinking water from local springs, a water source that looks clean, but is contaminated with life threatening bacteria and parasites. Related Item: See Photos of the Projects COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 20, 2013) […]
Fine Wines & Hidden Treasures Pre-party at Worth Avenue’s Daniella Ortiz Increases the Galas Purse
(L to R) Arlette Gordon, Daniella Ortiz and Elizabeth Bowden. Related Items: Reserve Your Gala Table More Photos on Facebook COCONUT CREEK, Fla.(Dec. 18, 2013) – Food For The Poor’s Fine Wines & Hidden Treasures Gala Co-Chairs, Arlette Gordon and Elizabeth Bowden, and members of the committee hosted a pre-event party at Daniella Ortiz, a […]
Food For The Poor Organizes Release of Nonviolent Offenders in Time for Christmas
(L to R) Sandra Ramsey and a prison guard at Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Jamaica release an inmate in time to spend Christmas with his family. Related Item: See More Photos on Facebook COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 18, 2013) – Thirty-three prisoners received a second chance from Food For The Poor at St. […]
South Florida Designers Unite to Support Show House
The exclusive Designer Show House 2014 VIP Reception will be Thursday, Feb. 20, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. in Lighthouse Point, Fla. Related Items: Get Show House Tickets See Photos of the Designers COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2013) – Lighthouse Interiors is pleased to announce the South Florida designers selected to join Bridget Conway, […]
On a Pilgrimage for the Poor, New Mexico Man to Walk 500 Miles
Daniel Valdez has spent recent months preparing for his second 500-mile walk from Lovington, N.M., to Chihuahua, Mexico, starting on Friday, Dec. 20, 2013. Related Item: See More Photos of Dan COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 9, 2013) – With a whole lot of faith and a desire to raise awareness about the needs of those […]