Post tagged with Donate

  • Soaring Food, Fuel Prices Pose Double Threat to Poor

    March 02nd, 201102:54 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Workers from Food For The Poor often find families in developing countries who have not eaten for three or four days. Either there is no food available at all, or they have no money with which to buy even a small bag of rice. Now, because of soaring food and fuel costs, their food sources will be further threatened. Floods, drought, and crop fail...

  • Donate to Food For The Poor with the Swipe of your Credit Card

    January 31st, 201111:06 AM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Helping Food For The Poor serve the destitute has never been easier. If calling, texting or going online is not your thing, let your credit card do the work for you. Food For The Poor has teamed up with SwipeGood, a company that helps nonprofit organizations make fundraising more efficient. "Food For The Poor is the third-largest international rel...

  • Support Food For The Poor with every credit card swipe you make!

    January 25th, 201109:44 AM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Food For The Poor is now supported by SwipeGood, a service that allows you to automatically round up all your credit or debit card transactions to the nearest dollar, donating your spare change to help the poorest of the poor. When you're a starving child, spare change goes a long way. Eighteen dollars, the average monthly donation of a SwipeGood ...

  • Through Dec. 31, gifts for feeding Haiti’s children are being doubled

    December 28th, 201002:53 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Can you imagine having to tell your children that "today is not your turn to eat?" While visiting earthquake-devastated Haiti earlier this year, Food For The Poor Executive Director Angel Aloma witnessed one child eating a handful of rice while his older brother merely watched. "Today is not my turn to eat," the boy told Aloma. Haiti is home...

  • An empty chair -- a distraught mother -- but why?

    July 02nd, 201009:14 AM ET
    By Food for the poor
    The small voice was forever silenced when malnutrition took his young life. Maria Gomez's four remaining children can only look at their mother in bewilderment. They don't understand why their brother Jarlin, age 5 months, is no longer there. They can only cry for the food Maria cannot provide. Maria Gomez of Nicaragua struggles to feed her fou...

  • Tropical Storm Agatha batters Central America

    June 02nd, 201010:45 AM ET
    By Food for the poor
    The season's first tropical storm, Agatha, has claimed hundreds of lives in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, three of the 17 countries in which Food For The Poor serves the destitute. The greatest damage and highest death toll was in Guatemala, where rescue efforts have been complicated by a volcanic eruption on Thursday that blanketed parts o...

  • Getting to Know Us - American Foundation for Children with AIDS

    October 14th, 200909:46 AM ET
    By Tanya Weaver
    The American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA) is a non-profit organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. AFCA helps HIV+/AIDS children and their guardians in sub-Saharan Africa who have no other access to aid by providing critical AIDS and related medications, medical equipment and supplies, nutritional supplements, and emergency suppl...

  • Prepare your heart with "40 days of thanks"

    October 01st, 200910:21 AM ET
    By Food for the poor
    COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Sept. 30, 2009) - The hustle and bustle of the holiday season -shopping for gifts, making travel plans, remembering to defrost the turkey - can sometimes overshadow the real meaning of Thanksgiving. By participating in Food For The Poor's "40 Days Of Thanks" with your church, school or organization you will prepare your family'...

  • El Salvador’s Neediest Receive Blessing of Shoes

    September 04th, 200904:41 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (Sept. 4, 2009) - Thousands of El Salvador's neediest children and elderly received new shoes last week, as part of an initiative overseen by Food For The Poor. The relief agency has been working in El Salvador since 1997, and has been involved in housing, water, educational, agricultural and animal husbandry projects. Thi...
Advertisement
About this blog
A blog about humanitarian efforts led by Christian organizations across the globe