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Building from the Rubble Up

November 22, 2021February 4, 2015 Robby

Food For The Poor’s dauntless staff writer Debi Springer has an extraordinary compassion for the children and families we work to support here at FFP. Please take a few minutes to read about a family she met on a recent trip to Haiti. Have you ever come face-to-face with someone who has a dream? I […]

A True Place to Call Home

November 22, 2021April 14, 2015 Robby

Amber Noe is the coordinator of Food For The Poor’s peer-to-peer fundraising program, Champions for the Poor. She recently traveled to Haiti for the first time, and was kind enough to share some of her experiences with us.

A True Place to Call Home: II

November 22, 2021May 20, 2015 Robby

Amber, our Champions For The Poor coordinator, shares more about her first trip to Haiti.

Join The Pack to Help Starving Children in Haiti

November 22, 2021March 23, 2016 Victoria Green

Katiana Antoine is a recent graduate of Florida International University. She enjoys writing and volunteering for different causes, and especially loves working with young children and youth. She is looking forward to joining us at our Join The Pack event on June 4. How often do you starve? Sounds a bit silly, but if we “starved” […]

Mission Trip to Haiti: Gathered Up by Their Love and Joy

November 22, 2021April 28, 2016 Victoria Green

Fr. Tony Palazzolo, a Food For The Poor Speaker, recently returned from leading a Mission trip to Haiti, and he shared his reflections on the experience. This was one of the most memorable Mission experiences for me personally. Why? Because of the dramatic change/improvement we experienced in [the village of] La Fosse from the previous […]

Hope in Haiti

November 22, 2021September 2, 2016 Victoria Green

By Michael Turnbell In Haiti, little things make a huge impact. The joy of a child seeing his or herself in a picture for the first time. A new soccer ball. A piece of candy. New shoes or a beautiful handmade dress with a matching doll. Most of the time, just the gift of […]

A Journey Home to Haiti – Part One

November 22, 2021September 20, 2016 Victoria Green

Cassandra Celestin, a Special Events Coordinator at Food For The Poor, shares her experience upon returning to her home country of Haiti for the first time in nearly 16 years. Summer of 1999 was the most exhilarating and fun summer of my childhood. I had traveled to the United States to spend a few weeks […]

A Journey Home to Haiti – Part Two

November 22, 2021September 21, 2016 Victoria Green

Cassandra Celestin, a Special Events Coordinator at Food For The Poor, shares her experience upon returning to her home country of Haiti for the first time in nearly 16 years. Yesterday, we shared part one of Cassandra’s Journey Home to Haiti. Finally I understood why those who leave the provinces to come to Port-au-Prince often say in […]

My Journey to Guyana, Land of Many Waters

November 22, 2021January 19, 2017 Victoria Green

Leann Chong, our Director of Missions & Travel, is excited to lead our first group mission trip to Guyana from March 6-11, 2017. On my first trip to Guyana, the “Land of Many Waters,” I followed the advice I give to all mission trip participants: travel without any expectations, but go with an open heart […]

Growing Up Daysi

November 22, 2021May 3, 2017 Victoria Green

Daysi was so severely malnourished she could barely stand by herself and was so sick she couldn’t eat. Her family lived in Honduras beneath a canopy of trees deep in a mountainside forest, surrounded by a coffee plantation. Her family barely earned $10 a week, so there was rarely enough food. A stray pig had […]