Christmas gifts that renew hearts

During this holy season, when commercialism sometimes can obscure the true meaning of Christmas, consider giving a gift from the heart that friends and loved ones will cherish.

The creative gift ideas in Food For The Poor’s Gift Catalog will continue to change lives long after Christmas has passed. Delight your loved ones with a thoughtful gift given in his or her honor to the poor. For $36, you can give the gift of life by feeding a malnourished child for a year. Or you can choose to give farm animals such as chickens, pigs, goats, donkeys and cows to provide an income and source of nutrition for destitute families.

“Christmas is the perfect time to bless the ones you love by giving in their honor a life-changing gift to those who struggle daily to survive,” said Angel Aloma, Food For The Poor’s Executive Director. “These heartfelt gifts restore the destitute’s ability to dream, epitomize the spirit of giving and fit any budget.”

Food For The Poor’s house-building program constructs safe and sturdy permanent housing for the destitute in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica and Nicaragua. Families, companies or groups of employees can jointly fund the cost of $3,200 for a one-room home with sanitation. The family who is moved out of a leaking, dilapidated shack into a real home this Christmas will be forever grateful.

Food For The Poor also remains committed to investing in water projects, building villages, and schools and providing micro-enterprise opportunities for poor villages.

This year, Food For The Poor has created a special rhyme to emphasize how gifts from the catalog save lives, transform communities and renew hope. To see our gifts in action please view our "Gift Giving Poem" video.

All gifts are tax-deductible. To send a gift, the catalog can be accessed through the charity’s secure website at www.FoodForThePoor.org/giftcatalog, or a printed version of the catalog is available by calling 800-427-9104.

Food For The Poor, the third-largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of the hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.

For more information, please visit www.FoodForThePoor.org.

Contact:
Jennifer Leigh Oates
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6054
jennifero@foodforthepoor.com

Gifts sure to delight, restore the ability to dream

This Mother’s Day, celebrate your mom by giving her a gift that honors her legacy and improves the lives of mothers in developing countries. From child sponsorship opportunities, to milk-producing goats and sewing machines used for micro-enterprise, Food For The Poor’s online catalog is brimming with unique gift options for every budget.


For $34 a month you can share a mother’s love by sponsoring a child through Food For The Poor’s Angels Of Hope program. Your gift will provide orphaned and abandoned children throughout the Caribbean and Latin America with food, shelter and access to medical care and an education. The charity has expanded its Angels Of Hope program, so now there are more children than ever in need of monthly sponsors.

“When a child is born into a life of poverty there is little time for them to dream,” said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. “Instead, these children have nightmares about surviving, fighting off illness and quenching their thirst. Their consciousness is consumed with survival – day-to-day, hour-by-hour. The Angels Of Hope program is a way for you to reach into the darkness and to pull a child into the light.”

Food For The Poor’s gift catalog epitomizes the spirit of giving and offers a wide variety of gifts – from a solar-powered handheld light for $20, or a gift of a goat for $90, to providing a community with a lifesaving water pump for $205.
“When I saw the water for the first time, I was crying tears of joy… it is a miracle,” said Aurelia Pac, a mother and beneficiary of a Food For The Poor water project in Guatemala. This gift of clean, safe drinking water means Pac and other women and children in the village no longer have to trek for miles to fetch water for their family’s daily needs.

Additionally, the gift of a new, permanent house can move families out of dangerous living circumstances near garbage dumps and coastal swamps. For only $3,200, you will do more than build a house with sanitation – you will empower a family to help themselves and to share their good fortune with others.

All gifts are tax-deductible. To send a gift, the catalog can be accessed through the charity’s secure website at www.foodforthepoor.org/giftcatalog, or a printed version of the catalog is available by calling 800-427-9104.

Food For The Poor, the third-largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of the hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. For more information, please visit www.FoodForThePoor.org.

Contact:
Jennifer Leigh Oates
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6054
jennifero@foodforthepoor.com