Jamaican Consulate Helps to Serve the Poor in Haiti

The Consulate General of Jamaica presented a donation to the United State’s largest international charity, Food For The Poor, for their relief efforts in Haiti...
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Nonprofit Uses Computers to Fight Poverty

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 30, 2010) - By the middle of May, every orphanage in Food For The Poor’s Angels Of Hope program will have computers for the children who live there. Recognizing that education and technology are crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty, the largest international charity in the United States has shipped 636 computer workstations this past year to 94 orphanages in developing nations...
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Broward Health Professionals Travel to Jamaica to Educate on Palliative Care

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 19, 2010) – Medical professionals from Broward Health System will travel to Jamaica in April to participate in an educational seminar on palliative and curative aspects of cancer care for doctors and nurses at the Hope Institute, a small oncology hospital in Kingston...
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Food For The Poor Focused on Aid, Efficiency

The nation’s largest international relief and development agency continued to provide more than $1 billion in aid to the poor in the Caribbean and Latin America in 2009...
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Rebuilding Haiti, One House at a Time

The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010 not only brought a host of new troubles but also threw light on the many longstanding challenges of this impoverished nation. Many well-intentioned benefactors, including members of the South University community, have struggled to determine how best to help.

Provide medical supplies? Send food? Erect homes? Faced with the urgency and immediacy of the crisis, the South response was swift, a reflex conditioned by long experience.

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Spring Breakers Help Rotarians Try to Set New Guinness World Record

A faculty advisor’s visit to his native Jamaica seven years ago made him aware of the critical lack of reading materials in school and public libraries island-wide. Through his experience, students at University School of Nova Southeastern University, involved in the Books For Jamaica project, were inspired recently to help Rotary Clubs in Jamaica set a new Guinness World Record. To make the group’s goal a reality, they partnered with South Florida-based international relief organization Food For The Poor...

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Minnesota Twins Bless Communities Worlds Apart

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 14, 2010) – Identical twins Sydney and Whitney Johnson, 14, were inspired to raise money to build a house in Haiti – forever changing a destitute family’s life – after they heard a Food For The Poor speaker at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Fish Lake, in Prior Lake, Minn...

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Students For The Poor live on campus for a week as a tribute to the poor

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 9, 2010) – Members of Lynn University’s Students For The Poor will sleep outside on campus the week of April 12-16 to call attention to the deplorable living conditions of the destitute in developing countries. The goal is to raise donations to build desperately needed housing in Haiti with the international relief and development agency, Food For The Poor...

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Two of the “Largest” Team Up for Haiti

When Pat Tracy challenged his employees to raise money to help Food For The Poor rebuild Haiti after the devastating earthquake rattled the country in January, employees at Dot Foods in Illinois generously opened their wallets for the cause. Tracy, who is chairman of the largest food redistributor in the United States, promised to match the donations dollar-for-dollar...

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