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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...
Food For The Poor celebrates 25 years in Haiti

June 14th, 201104:01 PM ET

By Food for the poor

When Food For The Poor first began its work in Haiti, the organization was responding to a cry for help for those living in subhuman conditions in the country's largest and most dangerous slum, Cite Soleil located in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Five containers of rice were delivered in 1982 to prevent families from starving. By 1986, when Food F...
Food For The Poor Preparing Haiti for Hurricane Tomas

November 03rd, 201001:45 PM ET

By Food for the poor

Ten months after the merciless Jan. 12 earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and left the core of the Caribbean nation in ruins, and three weeks after a deadly cholera outbreak killed several hundred and sickened thousands, Haiti is facing down another potential disaster – Hurricane Tomas. Weather experts are forecasting Hurricane Tomas will r...