Post tagged with haiti

  • Food For The Poor to buy rice from Haitian farmers

    September 01st, 201104:48 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    In a move to help Haitian farmers as well as to supply food even more efficiently to the hungry in that country, the international relief and development agency Food For The Poor will start buying rice from 2,000 farmers in the area most affected by the 2010 earthquake. The partnership will begin today and will provide a third of the rice that the ...

  • Out of debris and despair, progress in Port-au-Prince

    August 19th, 201102:00 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Rubble that has lined vacant sections of Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake is finally being cleared to make way for much needed housing in the Caribbean nation's capital and most populous city. Food For The Poor is about to start a major housing development project on the outskirts of the city with the Inter-American Development Ba...

  • Determined to build a school, 11-year-old needs your help

    August 10th, 201102:34 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    In May, 11-year-old Rachel Wheeler traveled to Haiti to dedicate the village for which she fundraised for two years. It was built with the nonprofit Food For The Poor. The residents in "Rachel's Village" greeted her with a hero's welcome, clapping and singing songs of praise and thanks. It was here, in the coastal village of Kay Piti, in Leogane, a...

  • Food For The Poor wins Telly award

    August 08th, 201111:47 AM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Food For The Poor's 'The Least Of These' was named winner of a second place Bronze Telly Award for bringing awareness to the desperate plight of children who suffer horrific living conditions in developing countries. The moving production highlighting personal stories of children in Haiti and Guatemala was selected out of approximately 11...

  • Second school sustains Stephanie Crispinelli’s legacy

    August 03rd, 201101:23 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Wearing blue shirts that read "Failure is not an option," Lenny and Lin Crispinelli have continued to build their daughter's legacy, erecting a second school in Jamaica with the nonprofit Food For The Poor. Energized by the fast-paced construction, a group of 33 friends and family members discussed plans for a third school before 'Steph's Place II'...

  • Outreach and Food For The Poor celebrate milestone meals

    July 27th, 201102:31 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Since 2007, Outreach has donated 7.5 million meals, packaged by volunteers throughout the United States, to Food For The Poor. In the last year alone, Outreach has donated four containers of food, exceeding 1 million meals. These meals of rice-vegetable casserole, fortified with soy protein and vitamins, have been distributed to countries through...

  • Feeding hungry families, saving lives, one step at a time

    July 26th, 201103:27 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Dust off those sneakers, if you haven't already, and get ready to run, jog or walk in what has become one of Food For The Poor's most popular events in its fight against hunger. The 6th annual "5K Walk/Run For Hunger" fundraiser in Deerfield Beach, Fla. on Sept. 24, will kick-start events nationwide: Oct. 15 in Fort Mill, S.C., Nov. 12 in ...

  • Office staff takes on challenge to build homes in Haiti

    June 24th, 201103:38 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    A large piece of cardboard, with cartoon-like images of a curvy street and houses made of pastel fabric is not something you'll see in a world-famous museum. But this work of art, affectionately referred to as "the neighborhood," is so much more. It represents compassion, creativity, and the desire to make a difference in the lives of people three ...

  • Father Chuck’s legacy transforms lives in Haiti and Nicaragua

    June 24th, 201102:30 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    Have you ever been hugged so tightly you could feel the other person's heartbeat? Embraces full of gratitude welcomed Monsignor Francis X. Schmidt and residents from the Philadelphia area to villages in Haiti and Nicaragua that they have helped to transform with the relief and development organization Food For The Poor. "We, working with Father Ch...

  • Students build homes in Haiti, creating a legacy

    June 20th, 201102:17 PM ET
    By Food for the poor
    At the same time Haitians came together to elect a new president, a government teacher in California challenged high school seniors to combine their talents through their curriculum to erect safe, permanent houses for destitute families in Haiti. Since the fall, two groups of students at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita have partnered with the...
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