Fifty families have moved into secure homes in Olivier, Deuxieme Plaine, Haiti, just weeks before the hurricane season traditionally heats up in the Caribbean. These permanent homes were built from funds raised in February at the Building Hope Gala in Boca Raton, Fla. Construction on the homes and community center started in March, and all of the families were moved to safety by mid-July.
“The appalling conditions that we have found so many children and their families living in throughout the Caribbean and Latin America are unimaginable,” said Robin Mahfood, Food For The Poor's President/CEO. “Without safe, permanent shelter the destitute are often wet and cold when it rains, and live in fear of landslides sweeping them into the sea.”
For more than 30 years, Food For The Poor has worked to bring relief to poor families, caring for their basic needs, and giving them a chance to live and work again. In addition to building the 50 two-room homes and community center in Olivier, chicken and cattle rearing projects have also been implemented with money raised at the gala.
“I can’t believe people have to live like this, it really breaks my heart,” said committee member Becky Carlsson, as she described the inhumane conditions she witnessed in Haiti. “They are not really houses, they are little one-room shacks of metal and tin that families live in.”
The 2012 committee chairs included Cathy and Abdol Moabery (Event Co-Chairpersons), Ronda and David Gluck (Event Co-Chairpersons), and Rene and Francis Mahfood (Honorary Chairpersons).
The 18th annual gala will be Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 at The Polo Club of Boca Raton. For additional information regarding the Building Hope Gala, benefactor levels, and tickets, available at $250 per person, please call 1-888-404-4248 or visit www.FoodForThePoor.org/boca.
Attendees will be invited to create a legacy by pledging to build critically needed houses in Jamaica during the charity’s “live house rally.” There are pockets of immense poverty throughout Jamaica, but because the country relies heavily on tourism, the harsh reality of destitution often is concealed.
“With the support of Food For The Poor’s donors and committees such as this, we have been able to raise enough funds to build 10 homes a day, seven days a week in the countries we serve,” said Mahfood. “Each home has two rooms, plus a toilet and a shower, and a porch for cooking. They are ‘a shelter from the raging wind and the storm.’ ” (Psalm 55:8).
Since the earthquake, Food For The Poor has built 3,261 two-room homes in Haiti.
Committee members for the 2013 Building Hope Gala include Laurie Braden, Kelly Brauner, Becky Carlsson, Melissa Davimos, Ronda Ellis Ged, Ronda Gluck, Michele Greene, LaMae Klos, Robin Ranzal Knowles, Julie Mahfood, Rene Mahfood, Pamela Matsil, Cathy Moabery, Jill Perea
Tashia Rahl, Kara Seelye, Natasha Singh, Renee Stetler, Holly Strogoff, Allison Venditti, Patricia Wallace, and Traci Wilson.
Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the 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
Friday, July 27, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Cast Your Vote for Food For The Poor!
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 23, 2012) - Food For The Poor has been selected as a finalist in two categories of the 4th Annual CLASSY Awards. Among the 2,400 submissions, Food For The Poor was chosen as a top five regional finalist for Charity of the Year and for the Disaster Relief and International Aid category. The CLASSY Awards is the largest charity awards ceremony in the country that celebrates the greatest philanthropic achievements by nonprofit organizations, socially conscious businesses, and individuals worldwide.
“We are humbled and honored by this recognition from CLASSY because there are so many organizations and individuals who are doing what they can to make this world a better place,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “We are privileged to be categorized as a leader organization.”
For three decades, Food For The Poor has served the hungry, the destitute, and the abandoned in the Caribbean and Latin America. The organization, thanks to its dedicated donors, has built more than 77,000 homes, sent more than 60,000 containers filled with essential goods to the 17 countries it serves, and delivered more than $9 billion in aid since its inception.
Please visit www.stayclassy.org/classy-awards/vote, select the "South" region and cast your vote for Food For The Poor. While the public is casting their votes, a panel of Past Regional Winners in each category will also cast their votes. The final score will be determined by a combination of the Public Vote (50%) and Past Winner Judges' Scores (50%). Judges will score each Regional Finalist based on impact, originality and category fit. The Regional Winners will be announced on July 31.
The 16 National CLASSY Awards Winners will be announced live on stage at the San Diego Civic Theatre in San Diego, Calif. on September 22.
Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the 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.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Building Hope and Transforming Lives in the Mountains of Nicaragua
COCONUT
CREEK, Fla. (July
18, 2012) – Life is not easy for the families who live in the highlands of one
of Central America’s largest countries. Nestled between Honduras to the north
and Costa Rica to the south, Nicaragua is home to nearly 6 million people. Beautiful
cascading waterfalls located deep within the lush green forests of its
mountains mask the reality of unimaginable poverty.
To
help address the needs of the poorest of the poor in Nicaragua, donors and
volunteers from Catholic parishes in the Philadelphia area have funded projects
for five years and have taken annual mission trips through Food For The Poor. In June, a group of 21 traveled with full-time
volunteers Monsignor Francis X. Schmidt and Connie Hunt for the dedications of
the newly completed Santa Maria Goretti Village in Pantasma and Nativity
Village in La Dalia.
“Food
For The Poor knows what they’re doing and Father Chuck’s Challenge has gotten a
lot of contributions,” said Msgr. Schmidt. “We’ve seen a lot of progress being
made in various areas, but there’s still a lot more to be done.”
More
than 500 two-room homes have been built within a five year period in honor of Father
Chuck Pfeffer. He was a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who, prior to
his death in 2004, was dedicated to helping the poor. Each village is provided
with water, sanitation and a multi-purpose community center. Some villages even have a school, and a medical
clinic. Families also are given furnishings and trees with their new home, and
are equipped with self-sustaining projects such as animal husbandry initiatives.
Msgr. Schmidt, who’s 80, has taken the lead in what is now known as Father
Chuck’s Challenge.
“Thanks
to the kindness of strangers, help is reaching a segment of people who were
living in dire and, in some cases, inhumane conditions,” said Angel Aloma,
Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “Msgr. Schmidt is an amazing human
being who sincerely cares about the poor and he understands that fulfilling their
physical needs is an important step toward meeting their spiritual needs.”
Much
of the support for Father Chuck’s Challenge comes from dedicated donors who not
only share their resources, but their time by visiting the recipients of their
new homes in Nicaragua, which is an exchange of joy for the receiver and the
giver.
“Because
of all the blessings I have, I feel I can give back to those who are less
fortunate,” said Joan Bianco, who donated money for one of the homes. “It’s
very heartwarming to know that a child will now be safe from the environment
and that they will have a bed to sleep in.”
Click
to view video of how lives in the mountains of Nicaragua are being transformed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwj1-29t3AI.
To
support Father Chuck’s Challenge, please make checks payable to Food For The Poor,
Inc. and include the memo source code “SC #80753” so the money can be
properly allocated. Donations can be mailed to Food For The Poor, Inc., 6401
Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, FL 33073. All gifts are tax-deductible. Online
donations can also be made through the charity’s secure Web site at www.FoodForThePoor.org/fatherchuckschallenge.
Food
For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of
Philanthropy as the 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.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Volunteers take a “hands-on” approach: FedEx helps Food For The Poor build homes in Central America
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 16, 2012) FedEx
Corporation has teamed up with Food For The Poor for the first time and donated
enough funds to build 12 two-room homes – six in Honduras and six in Nicaragua.
The unique aspect of this partnership is that FedEx contractors who work in offices based in these Central American countries volunteered their time and helped with the construction and painting of these homes.
Founded in 1971 as the Federal Express Corporation, FedEx now operates in more than 200 countries. No stranger to giving back, FedEx has a history of donating funds and resources following natural disasters in the United States and abroad. Food For The Poor has a long history in Central America and feels a sense of relief that these new homes have been completed before the start of hurricane season, which was June 1.
Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the 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.
Contact:
Wanda Wright
Director of Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.org
The unique aspect of this partnership is that FedEx contractors who work in offices based in these Central American countries volunteered their time and helped with the construction and painting of these homes.
Founded in 1971 as the Federal Express Corporation, FedEx now operates in more than 200 countries. No stranger to giving back, FedEx has a history of donating funds and resources following natural disasters in the United States and abroad. Food For The Poor has a long history in Central America and feels a sense of relief that these new homes have been completed before the start of hurricane season, which was June 1.
“We
began serving in Honduras in 1999, one year after it was devastated by
Hurricane Mitch, and we’ve been serving in Nicaragua since 1998. To have a
corporation such as FedEx provide the financial support for us to build these homes
for deserving families is wonderful, and we’re truly grateful,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor.
Recipients of the houses
in Honduras also helped in the building process of their new homes, which were
constructed just outside the city of San Pedro Sula. In Nicaragua, the new
homeowners in the town of Quezalguaque helped with the painting of their
houses.
Each home has two rooms,
a living space, indoor sanitation and a water cistern to collect rain water for
laundry and other household uses. The structures
are built on a cement foundation and are topped with sturdy zinc roofs. To date, Food For The Poor
has built:
·
5,145 homes in Honduras
·
14,110 homes in
Nicaragua
Contact:
Wanda Wright
Director of Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.org
Friday, July 6, 2012
Dietary science students serve in Guatemala
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 5, 2012) — On a recent mission trip to Guatemala with Food For The Poor, dietary science students and an Olivet Nazarene University professor had the opportunity to put their hearts and classroom lessons to work in feeding and malnutrition centers. They measured tiny arms, checking for bone length and muscle mass, and they weighed the children and checked their height.
All of this was done with one goal in mind – to help prevent the kind of childhood malnutrition that stunts the mental and physical development of so many children living in poverty in developing countries. Guatemala has a poverty rate of more than 50 percent and the chronic malnutrition rate is the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
Cathy Anstrom, Ph.D., has been at Olivet for 17 years and is a professor and director of the Dietetic Program there. She had traveled to Guatemala 10 years ago, and was eager to lead the group of students on what would become a life-changing experience for them. It turned out to be a different experience for her, as well.
“This time I left with a sense of hope for the people that we were visiting with, and helping,” Dr. Anstrom said. “The last time – and this is such a clear memory for me even though it was a long time ago – I remember thinking I don’t know how these people are going to survive.”
Seeing the women and children in their home environments and then serving them later at the feeding centers, where they also were weighed and measured, provided a way for the girls to connect with the children, she said. Her interest in Food For The Poor projects involving hunger and malnutrition stems from a course she began teaching 17 years ago on World Food Problems, which addressed possible group and individual solutions to this debilitating problem.
“I thought, if I teach anything to these students, I hope it is that these people are your brothers, your sisters,” Dr. Anstrom said. “We are global; it’s not us and them.”
Megan Grise, from Piqua, Ohio, graduated in May as a student of Dr. Anstrom’s, and now wants to specialize in pediatric nutrition.
“I got a lot out of going into the homes and witnessing the needs of the poor. There was a little boy, he was 7, rolling newspapers to sell to help feed the family. He was not complaining, just quietly working,” Megan said. “When we talked to him, he and his little brother told us that when they got very hungry, they would drink the glue made of a little corn starch and water. It just broke my heart.”
When the girls traveled later to the feeding center, they had a chance to feed the boys a meal along with the other children and see the confidence the women gained from having provisions for their families. The women brought firewood to the center to exchange for a meal of soup and tortillas. Then they assisted with the cooking and serving. If there is enough food available at the feeding centers, the women can take some home.
“We are so grateful for the help provided for the poor on this trip by the students and Dr. Anstrom,” said Angel Aloma, executive director of Food For The Poor. “Their practical skills, combined with their true heart for the poor, elevated this trip for everyone involved. Helping those suffering from malnutrition goes to the very core of our work.”
One form of malnutrition is scarcity of nutrients, which is common in a diet that relies mainly on starch. At one home, the mother had only a corn tortilla and salt to offer her little ones. In a country where round cheeks sometimes are mistaken for health, simple blood tests show that the children are desperately deficient of vital nutrients necessary for brain and muscle development.
Another form of malnutrition is caused by food scarcity. Some children may go days without eating, while parents struggle to find food. The students met a child at the San Juan Nutritional Center who weighed just 22 pounds and was almost 6 years old. She is one of about 60 children there who range from infancy to age 8, and who have been brought there because they are near death. On average, about two-thirds of the children admitted to the center are nourished back to health.
The reality of the level of poverty struck University of Florida student Allie North when the group visited the home of a mother and her children.
“I saw a child eat a chicken bone off the ground. He just picked it up and gnawed on it, because it was all they had. It was very sad and hard to believe that only two hours away from my home that people were living like this,” said Allie, who is a food science and human nutrition major at UF, and lives in Boca Raton, Fla. “When I originally declared my major, I wanted to be able to work with obesity and eating disorders, but this was a whole eye-opening experience.
“I examined my life when I got home, looked at my full refrigerator and thought about how those children live and it made me incredibly sad,” said Allie. “I want to help people like that. They really need our help.”
Upon their return to the United States, the group decided to raise funds to help the Dolores Nutritional Center Restoration project located in Dolores, El Peten, Guatemala. The center focuses on mild to severe malnutrition cases, particularly mothers and children suffering from chronic malnutrition. The project goal is to provide needed repairs to the center that will create a much safer environment for those receiving care.
Checks to support the project can be mailed to Food For The Poor, 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, Fla., 33073, using the source code 86122 in the memo field.
Food For The Poor, the 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:
Kathy Skipper
Director of Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6614
kathys@foodforthepoor.org
All of this was done with one goal in mind – to help prevent the kind of childhood malnutrition that stunts the mental and physical development of so many children living in poverty in developing countries. Guatemala has a poverty rate of more than 50 percent and the chronic malnutrition rate is the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
Cathy Anstrom, Ph.D., has been at Olivet for 17 years and is a professor and director of the Dietetic Program there. She had traveled to Guatemala 10 years ago, and was eager to lead the group of students on what would become a life-changing experience for them. It turned out to be a different experience for her, as well.
“This time I left with a sense of hope for the people that we were visiting with, and helping,” Dr. Anstrom said. “The last time – and this is such a clear memory for me even though it was a long time ago – I remember thinking I don’t know how these people are going to survive.”
Seeing the women and children in their home environments and then serving them later at the feeding centers, where they also were weighed and measured, provided a way for the girls to connect with the children, she said. Her interest in Food For The Poor projects involving hunger and malnutrition stems from a course she began teaching 17 years ago on World Food Problems, which addressed possible group and individual solutions to this debilitating problem.
“I thought, if I teach anything to these students, I hope it is that these people are your brothers, your sisters,” Dr. Anstrom said. “We are global; it’s not us and them.”
Megan Grise, from Piqua, Ohio, graduated in May as a student of Dr. Anstrom’s, and now wants to specialize in pediatric nutrition.
“I got a lot out of going into the homes and witnessing the needs of the poor. There was a little boy, he was 7, rolling newspapers to sell to help feed the family. He was not complaining, just quietly working,” Megan said. “When we talked to him, he and his little brother told us that when they got very hungry, they would drink the glue made of a little corn starch and water. It just broke my heart.”
When the girls traveled later to the feeding center, they had a chance to feed the boys a meal along with the other children and see the confidence the women gained from having provisions for their families. The women brought firewood to the center to exchange for a meal of soup and tortillas. Then they assisted with the cooking and serving. If there is enough food available at the feeding centers, the women can take some home.
“We are so grateful for the help provided for the poor on this trip by the students and Dr. Anstrom,” said Angel Aloma, executive director of Food For The Poor. “Their practical skills, combined with their true heart for the poor, elevated this trip for everyone involved. Helping those suffering from malnutrition goes to the very core of our work.”
One form of malnutrition is scarcity of nutrients, which is common in a diet that relies mainly on starch. At one home, the mother had only a corn tortilla and salt to offer her little ones. In a country where round cheeks sometimes are mistaken for health, simple blood tests show that the children are desperately deficient of vital nutrients necessary for brain and muscle development.
Another form of malnutrition is caused by food scarcity. Some children may go days without eating, while parents struggle to find food. The students met a child at the San Juan Nutritional Center who weighed just 22 pounds and was almost 6 years old. She is one of about 60 children there who range from infancy to age 8, and who have been brought there because they are near death. On average, about two-thirds of the children admitted to the center are nourished back to health.
The reality of the level of poverty struck University of Florida student Allie North when the group visited the home of a mother and her children.
“I saw a child eat a chicken bone off the ground. He just picked it up and gnawed on it, because it was all they had. It was very sad and hard to believe that only two hours away from my home that people were living like this,” said Allie, who is a food science and human nutrition major at UF, and lives in Boca Raton, Fla. “When I originally declared my major, I wanted to be able to work with obesity and eating disorders, but this was a whole eye-opening experience.
“I examined my life when I got home, looked at my full refrigerator and thought about how those children live and it made me incredibly sad,” said Allie. “I want to help people like that. They really need our help.”
Upon their return to the United States, the group decided to raise funds to help the Dolores Nutritional Center Restoration project located in Dolores, El Peten, Guatemala. The center focuses on mild to severe malnutrition cases, particularly mothers and children suffering from chronic malnutrition. The project goal is to provide needed repairs to the center that will create a much safer environment for those receiving care.
Checks to support the project can be mailed to Food For The Poor, 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, Fla., 33073, using the source code 86122 in the memo field.
Food For The Poor, the 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:
Kathy Skipper
Director of Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6614
kathys@foodforthepoor.org
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Working Hard for Haiti, Rachel Wheeler is Honored as a ‘Huggable Hero’
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (July 05, 2012) —– Rachel Wheeler of Lighthouse Point, Fla., is a little girl with a big heart who at the age of 9 decided she wanted to build a village for families in Haiti – a task many thought was impossible. Three years later, the now 12-year-old not only raised enough money to build 27 two-room homes through Food For The Poor in Leogane, Haiti, but she also raised enough funds to replace the Ecole Reap de Morel basic school that was destroyed during the 2010 earthquake.
Wheeler’s unselfish acts of kindness earned her a nomination earlier this year as a Huggable Hero by the Build-A-Bear Workshop. Build-A-Bear Workshop received approximately 1,100 entries, which were narrowed down to 80 semifinalists in March and to 30 finalists in May. Wheeler was selected as one of the final 15, from the distinguished group of 8 to 18-year-olds from the United States and Canada in June.
“Food For The Poor is extremely proud of Rachel Wheeler for winning this award. She is a very special little girl who has a tremendous love for the poor,” said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. “Because of her generosity and strong determination to make a difference in Haiti, she has greatly improved the lives of hundreds of children and their families.”
Huggable Heroes was founded in 2004 to honor and reward young people for giving back to their communities, their schools and our world. Nikki Giampolo, 15, who lost her battle with cancer in 2002, was the inspiration behind the Huggable Heroes program, now in its ninth year.
“I am happy to be recognized by Build-A-Bear Workshop. I had dozens and dozens of these bears when I was a little girl, and I never dreamed that someday I would be getting an award from them for helping others,” said Wheeler. “I love helping people, it makes me feel good and I will continue do it for as long as I can.”
In celebration of the company's 15th anniversary, Build-A-Bear Workshop will honor its 15 Huggable Heroes by donating $150,000 toward their education and charitable causes. Each Huggable Hero will receive $10,000, $7,500 of which will go toward an educational scholarship and $2,500, from the Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation, will be donated to their charity of choice.
In addition to attending an awards ceremony at the Build-A-Bear Workshop headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., the 15 Huggable Heroes also will participate in a service project at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. The service project and awards celebration will take place July 18-20.
Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the 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:
Wanda Wright
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.com
Wheeler’s unselfish acts of kindness earned her a nomination earlier this year as a Huggable Hero by the Build-A-Bear Workshop. Build-A-Bear Workshop received approximately 1,100 entries, which were narrowed down to 80 semifinalists in March and to 30 finalists in May. Wheeler was selected as one of the final 15, from the distinguished group of 8 to 18-year-olds from the United States and Canada in June.
“Food For The Poor is extremely proud of Rachel Wheeler for winning this award. She is a very special little girl who has a tremendous love for the poor,” said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. “Because of her generosity and strong determination to make a difference in Haiti, she has greatly improved the lives of hundreds of children and their families.”
Huggable Heroes was founded in 2004 to honor and reward young people for giving back to their communities, their schools and our world. Nikki Giampolo, 15, who lost her battle with cancer in 2002, was the inspiration behind the Huggable Heroes program, now in its ninth year.
“I am happy to be recognized by Build-A-Bear Workshop. I had dozens and dozens of these bears when I was a little girl, and I never dreamed that someday I would be getting an award from them for helping others,” said Wheeler. “I love helping people, it makes me feel good and I will continue do it for as long as I can.”
In celebration of the company's 15th anniversary, Build-A-Bear Workshop will honor its 15 Huggable Heroes by donating $150,000 toward their education and charitable causes. Each Huggable Hero will receive $10,000, $7,500 of which will go toward an educational scholarship and $2,500, from the Build-A-Bear Workshop Foundation, will be donated to their charity of choice.
In addition to attending an awards ceremony at the Build-A-Bear Workshop headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., the 15 Huggable Heroes also will participate in a service project at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. The service project and awards celebration will take place July 18-20.
Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the 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:
Wanda Wright
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.com
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