COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 26, 2013) – What can you buy with a quarter in 2013? Let’s see… a single gumball from a candy machine, maybe a couple pieces of candy from a local convenience store, or a few moments of dryer time at your local laundromat. But the truth of the matter is that about a quarter here doesn’t go very far, but it is all it takes to feed, not one, but four hungry children a meal in Haiti.
“In Haiti, more than half of the population, including two-thirds of the children, suffers from malnutrition. About 1 in 14 children die before reaching their fifth birthday,” said Robin Mahfood, President and CEO of Food For The Poor. “Many people are suffering in the world today, but it’s the truly poor who suffer the most; they’re often overlooked or simply forgotten. Many will be surprised to learn that this organization can feed four people one meal for less than 25 cents, and with a roll of quarters, we can feed a child a meal a day for about five and a half months.”
Food For The Poor has been helping to feed the poor in Haiti for 27 years. Through Food For The Poor’s “Quarters for Haiti” campaign, you can now help feed hungry Haitian children a meal of rice and beans for only 6 cents.
Food For The Poor is using social media to spread the word about the “Quarters for Haiti” campaign. A Facebook page was created to promote and explain how Food For The Poor is able to provide a meal for just 6 cents, and the impact it’s having on the countries we serve: www.facebook.com/QuartersForHaiti.
As a part of the “Quarters for Haiti” campaign if you text “quarters” to 25383, a roll of quarters (or $10) will be donated to help feed Haiti’s hungry.
It only takes six seconds to send a text, and if followed up by sending a tweet to friends and family, Food For The Poor can feed even more children.
Please donate your quarters and give lifesaving food to hungry Haitian children today:
www.FoodForThePoor.org/quarters.
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 95 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Friday, February 17, 2012
Gift from America’s Heartland is a legacy for Haiti
Thanks to the kindness of strangers, hundreds of children in Haiti soon will be benefiting from a loving donation made by the Chippewa Valley Bean Company to Food For The Poor.
Located in northwestern Wisconsin, the bean company has been a loyal donor to the ministry for more than seven years and now is committed to providing a life-long legacy by helping Food For The Poor to build schools in the Caribbean nation.
“We believe that helping children to receive an education is the surest way to break the cycle of poverty,” said Cindy Brown, of the Chippewa Valley Bean Company. “Given the great need for schools in Haiti, we’ve decided to use our contributions to help provide a place where children can receive both an education and a nutritious meal.”
Food For The Poor feeds millions a day in the 17 countries it serves – more than 400,000 a day in Haiti alone. In Port-au-Prince, 15,000 hot meals are served six days a week at the Food For The Poor feeding center. Beans and rice, an excellent source of protein, provide the foundation for nutritious meals.
“This is one of the most meaningful gifts Chippewa Valley could have given us,” said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. “It is our determination to build and re-build as many sturdy school structures as possible, so that the children can have a sense of normalcy while the adults work on rebuilding their homeland.”
For more than 40 years, the family owned Chippewa Valley Bean Company and its growers have produced premium quality kidney beans. It is the only kidney bean processing plant in the Wisconsin area still under its original ownership.
Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of 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
Located in northwestern Wisconsin, the bean company has been a loyal donor to the ministry for more than seven years and now is committed to providing a life-long legacy by helping Food For The Poor to build schools in the Caribbean nation.“We believe that helping children to receive an education is the surest way to break the cycle of poverty,” said Cindy Brown, of the Chippewa Valley Bean Company. “Given the great need for schools in Haiti, we’ve decided to use our contributions to help provide a place where children can receive both an education and a nutritious meal.”
Food For The Poor feeds millions a day in the 17 countries it serves – more than 400,000 a day in Haiti alone. In Port-au-Prince, 15,000 hot meals are served six days a week at the Food For The Poor feeding center. Beans and rice, an excellent source of protein, provide the foundation for nutritious meals.
“This is one of the most meaningful gifts Chippewa Valley could have given us,” said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. “It is our determination to build and re-build as many sturdy school structures as possible, so that the children can have a sense of normalcy while the adults work on rebuilding their homeland.”
For more than 40 years, the family owned Chippewa Valley Bean Company and its growers have produced premium quality kidney beans. It is the only kidney bean processing plant in the Wisconsin area still under its original ownership.
Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of 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
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Thousands of meals are heading to Haiti, thanks to Lynn University
More than 200 students, staff and volunteers packed Green Hall on the campus of Lynn University on the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. They were not there to mourn, but to participate in a food packing event to help feed families still recovering from the 2010 natural disaster.
The precious cargo – white rice, lentils, dried carrot, onion, tomato, celery, cabbage, bell pepper and a dash of Himalayan sea salt – was vacuum-sealed on the Boca Raton campus and packed into 120 boxes. Each box contains 48 bags of the dried ingredients, and each bag equals six meals or 288 meals per box, a total of 34,560 meals. All of the boxes were then signed with loving words of encouragement, loaded onto a truck and delivered to Food For The Poor’s warehouse in Coconut Creek.
“The students at Lynn University are so full of energy, we’re so grateful to them and to our donors with Feeding Children Everywhere for their gift, which will feed hundreds of families in Haiti,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “Higher food prices are challenging our ability to feed the number of hungry we need to reach, so we’re very grateful for this donation.”
This is the second year Lynn University has partnered with the Orlando-based food pack charity, and donated those meals to Food For The Poor. The critically needed food will be shipped to Haiti by the end of the month.
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:
Wanda Wright
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.com
The precious cargo – white rice, lentils, dried carrot, onion, tomato, celery, cabbage, bell pepper and a dash of Himalayan sea salt – was vacuum-sealed on the Boca Raton campus and packed into 120 boxes. Each box contains 48 bags of the dried ingredients, and each bag equals six meals or 288 meals per box, a total of 34,560 meals. All of the boxes were then signed with loving words of encouragement, loaded onto a truck and delivered to Food For The Poor’s warehouse in Coconut Creek.“The students at Lynn University are so full of energy, we’re so grateful to them and to our donors with Feeding Children Everywhere for their gift, which will feed hundreds of families in Haiti,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “Higher food prices are challenging our ability to feed the number of hungry we need to reach, so we’re very grateful for this donation.”
This is the second year Lynn University has partnered with the Orlando-based food pack charity, and donated those meals to Food For The Poor. The critically needed food will be shipped to Haiti by the end of the month.
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:
Wanda Wright
Food For The Poor
Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6079
wandaw@foodforthepoor.com
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Outreach and Food For The Poor celebrate milestone meals
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 Food For The Poor’s network in Latin America and the Caribbean – principally Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
“Food For The Poor feeds more than 2 million people each day in the 17 countries we serve. We depend on organizations such as Outreach to help us supply the necessary food to feed the hungry,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “We are grateful to them, because without them, many more lives would be threatened by malnutrition and starvation.
Outreach Inc., a nonprofit based in Iowa, was created in 2004 when founders Floyd and Kathy Hammer returned from their second trip to Tanzania, Africa, on a construction mission. During their trips, they witnessed the death of many children from hunger and related diseases. They dreamed of a world free of poverty and limitations. Their response was to form Outreach.
Today, Outreach is delivering more than 100 million meals to the hungry in the United States, Haiti, Africa, and around the world.
Outreach arranges packaging events with faith and service organizations, schools, and civic groups. These food packaging events, held in church halls, school gymnasiums, and even stadiums, bring hundreds, sometimes thousands, of volunteers, each prepared to donate time and money to package meals. Five hundred volunteers can typically produce 50,000 meals. For more information on how to participate, go to www.outreachprogram.org.
“Our food packaging events are extraordinary spiritual events of giving and caring that draw congregations, communities and neighborhoods together,” said Floyd Hammer. “We are grateful that Food For The Poor has been able to take it from the packaging events to the countries where the food is most needed.”
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:
Kathy Skipper
Food For The Poor
Director of Public Relations
(954) 427-2222 x 6614
kathys@foodforthepoor.org
These meals of rice-vegetable casserole, fortified with soy protein and vitamins, have been distributed to countries through Food For The Poor’s network in Latin America and the Caribbean – principally Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. “Food For The Poor feeds more than 2 million people each day in the 17 countries we serve. We depend on organizations such as Outreach to help us supply the necessary food to feed the hungry,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor. “We are grateful to them, because without them, many more lives would be threatened by malnutrition and starvation.
Outreach Inc., a nonprofit based in Iowa, was created in 2004 when founders Floyd and Kathy Hammer returned from their second trip to Tanzania, Africa, on a construction mission. During their trips, they witnessed the death of many children from hunger and related diseases. They dreamed of a world free of poverty and limitations. Their response was to form Outreach.
Today, Outreach is delivering more than 100 million meals to the hungry in the United States, Haiti, Africa, and around the world.
Outreach arranges packaging events with faith and service organizations, schools, and civic groups. These food packaging events, held in church halls, school gymnasiums, and even stadiums, bring hundreds, sometimes thousands, of volunteers, each prepared to donate time and money to package meals. Five hundred volunteers can typically produce 50,000 meals. For more information on how to participate, go to www.outreachprogram.org.
“Our food packaging events are extraordinary spiritual events of giving and caring that draw congregations, communities and neighborhoods together,” said Floyd Hammer. “We are grateful that Food For The Poor has been able to take it from the packaging events to the countries where the food is most needed.”
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:
Kathy Skipper
Food For The Poor
Director of Public Relations
(954) 427-2222 x 6614
kathys@foodforthepoor.org
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