Food For The Poor’s Angels of Hope program provides orphaned and abandoned children with loving homes and sponsorship. Each year, the children compete in a drawing contest to win a certificate and $500 toward their personal needs. Congratulations to Pablo, above right, and Mirna, above center, in blue, winners of the 2012 Angels of Hope […]
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Angels of Hope Director Tricia Szymanski shares the inside scoop on FFP’s annual Angels of Hope Drawing Contest: The Angels of Hope Drawing Contest has become one of the highlights of the year for the artists that participate. The children are always excited to hear the new themes each year and love to compare their […]
Report from the field: Nikki Rivera on Haiti
April 17: I am in love with the people of Haiti. They have stolen my heart. I feel so loved: The children just smother you with kisses and hugs. They also love stroking your hair. I am truly moved. Just To recap: We visited schools today, the feeding centers, our warehouse and the mountainside […]
Before & After: How donor generosity gave a little boy a brighter future
In 2006, when Food For The Poor’s Honduras development team first met him, 8-year-old Gerson David seemed to carry the weight of the world on his small shoulders. His father had abandoned the family, and Gerson alone was left to help his mother, Eliodora, care for his three older siblings — two brothers and a […]
FFP Countries in the 2012 Olympics
In anticipation of the 2012 Olympic Games, we’ve compiled a list of how many competitors each country we work in is sending to London. The countries we partner with may be small compared to the USA, but they are athletic! So let’s go Team USA and all our friends in the Caribbean and Latin America! […]
Thoughts on “A Day of Hope.”
A hearty “thank you” to Cleveland-area blogger Christine for the following post: A Day of Hope … My radio station has a donor graciously matching today’s (Wednesday, June 6) giving. Please go here to donate as little as $11, which will feed three children for a month. You can give a one-time gift, or a […]
Newly branded Marlins baseball team donates old uniforms to kids
In 2012, after the Florida Marlins baseball team rebranded itself as the “Miami Marlins” and the players received new uniforms, outfielder Emilio Bonifacio, traveled with Food For The Poor to the Dominican Republic to generously donate their old uniforms and various baseball equipment to underprivileged youths in the Dominican Republic.
[VIDEO] Journey of Hope to Haiti
In November 2011, seven committee members from the Boca Raton/Lighthouse Point communities traveled to Haiti with Food For The Poor. While in-country, the committee members decided this year’s Building Hope Gala goal would be to raise enough money to construct 100 housing units, a community center, and to initiate an animal husbandry project to include […]
A heart-to-heart
Food For The Poor staff photographer Benjamin Rusnak snapped this poignant photograph of Sister Edna Morales and a young friend in February 2011 during a visit to the FFP-supported nutritional center where she works. Guatemala has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the Western Hemisphere, and Sister Edna has been pivotal in running the […]
Haiti earthquake anniversary mass
Food For The Poor photographer Benjamin Rusnak took this photograph during a Jan. 12, 2011, mass outside the remains of the Cathedral Notre Dame de l’Assomption (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Those pictured were praying for loved ones lost during the Jan. 12, 2010, magnitude 7.0 earthquake that claimed more […]