Joy, Author at Food For The Poor

Nothing Grows Here Anymore but Hunger

November 22, 2021July 29, 2014 Joy

When staff writer Bonnie Vanak travels, she meets many mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers in the depths of despair. She sits with them and listens as they share their struggles, their dreams and their prayers. Today, Bonnie shares the story of a mother she met in the mountains of Guatemala while on assignment with […]

You Answered a Family’s Prayers in Guatemala

November 22, 2021August 19, 2014 Joy

Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor, is visiting partners and communities in Guatemala along with four FFP colleagues. Hours into his arrival he encountered a family desperately trying to make ends meet. Below is an email he shared with the Food For The Poor staff about the family’s saga. We arrived in Guatemala […]

Easter wishes from Ruth

November 22, 2021September 3, 2014 Joy

Letters from sponsored children to sponsors are carefully written, then translated with extra care to make sure the meaning is transferred from the child’s native language to English. Because of that, sometimes it can take a while for mail to get from a sponsored child to their sponsor. Kathy, FFP’s director of public relations, recently […]

What We Get When We Give

November 22, 2021September 30, 2014 Joy

At Food For The Poor, we’re blessed to have dedicated and loving board members like Dr. Lynne Nasrallah. This educator has served on our board for nine years and often travels with us. She also chairs the Orlando “A Celebration of Hope” gala, which builds homes for destitute families in remote areas of Haiti. She […]

What Giving Does to the Soul and Body

November 22, 2021November 24, 2014 Joy

“Give of yourself, give as much as you can! And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!… Give and you shall receive, much more than you would have ever thought possible. Give, give again and again… No one has ever become poor from giving.” — Anne Frank Food For The […]

Your Christmas Gifts Deliver Hope to Children

November 22, 2021December 23, 2014 Joy

Thank you to all of our donors and partners who helped us bring the joy of Christmas to the children we serve. Recently children in Jamaica and Haiti received stuffed animals and toys donated by Food For The Poor donors and partners. More toys will be delivered on Christmas to the children we serve in […]

Five Years after the Haiti Earthquake

November 22, 2021January 12, 2015 Joy

By Joy Oglesby It was a warm Tuesday afternoon when the earth started to violently shift. Within minutes thousands were killed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as buildings collapsed on children, women and men. When the dust settled, more than 300,000 people were dead. Countless others were injured. More than 1 million instantly displaced. Since that terrible […]

Pray for Baby to be Born into the Light of a New Home

November 22, 2021May 26, 2015 Joy

Our Executive Director, Angel Aloma, traveled with a group of clergymen recently to Honduras to visit children and their families who benefit from our programs. The group also met with families living in desperate conditions. This is Angel’s account of one encounter. On my trip in Honduras last week, we visited a garbage dump in […]

A Birthday Wish for Ruth

November 22, 2021June 25, 2014 Joy

Kathy Skipper is Director of Public Relations for Food For The Poor. She and her husband Joe have been blessed to sponsor Ruth through the Angels Of Hope program for the last two years. This is a birthday letter to their little girl, who lives at Our Lady of Lourdes Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Food […]

Love Rescues Baby in Haiti from Near Death

November 22, 2021August 4, 2015 Joy

Our Executive Director Angel Aloma recently spent a week in Haiti where he visited a hospital run by Lebanese twin surgeons, Jerry and Marlon Bitar, who gave up a life of luxury in Paris for a lifetime of helping the destitute poor in Port au Prince. It was there that Angel experienced one of the […]