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One Boca Grande Thanks Another For a New Life

March 14th, 201101:54 PM ET

By Food for the poor

The leader of the Boca Grande Hope for Haitians Committee and the Haiti Project Manager for Food For The Poor brought a message of gratitude to those attending the March 2 event in Boca Grande. "Merci, merci, merci...thank you so much for impacting, changing, transforming, restoring, for giving life," said Delane Bailey-Herd, Haiti Project Man...
We Did It! Boca Grande Builds a Village in Haiti

November 22nd, 201004:35 PM ET

By Food for the poor

The Boca Grande Friendship Village Committee set an aggressive goal of building an entire village in Haiti, and it couldn’t have come at a better time for the struggling country. More than 200 mothers, fathers and children have moved into 40 two-room homes in the village, and committee members will travel there in February to celebrate with the r...
Committee Celebrates Moving Past Half-Way Point

March 29th, 201001:55 PM ET

By Food for the poor

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 25, 2010) - The Boca Grande Friendship Village committee has met another major milestone toward their goal for a village in Haiti. The group has raised more than $250,000 for the community that will provide approximately 240 people with a village made up of concrete homes, clean water, animal husbandry projects, fruit tre...
Major Milestone Reached for Boca Grande Friendship Village

March 03rd, 201004:21 PM ET

By Food for the poor

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 1, 2010) - Just a few days away from its first fundraiser, the Boca Grande Friendship Village committee has met its first important milestone. They have raised more than $100,000, enough for Food For The Poor to begin constructing the first phase of the planned community in Pierre Payen, Haiti... Read more, click here. ...
Pierre Payen Residents In Need of Boca Grande Friendship Village

February 26th, 201002:17 PM ET

By Food for the poor

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Feb. 19, 2010) - Most of the people in Pierre Payen, Ravine Seche, Haiti are living in overcrowded mud huts with thatch roofs. Others have settled in concrete structures with rusted and leaky roofs. The Boca Grande Friendship Village committee wants to improve the living conditions for them by funding the development of a new c...