Food For The Poor in Guyana

Food For The Poor began working in Guyana on June 3, 1991, delivering food and other basic items to Guyana’s poor. Since then, FFP has expanded its services in Guyana to meet the growing needs of the country’s impoverished residents. It is now the leading organization providing relief to the people of Guyana.

• More than 2,680 housing units have been built for the poor in Guyana. These sturdy homes provide the poor with shelter, safety and brighter futures.
• Food For The Poor-Guyana has a distribution center in Georgetown and regularly distributes articles of need to schools, hospitals and orphanages.
• FFP-Guyana has embarked on several community development projects including: housing, water, sanitation, schools, clinics and self-sustaining agricultural and animal husbandry projects.
• In 2008, Food For The Poor began construction of the Lil’ Red Village in Essequibo, Guyana. With 100 housing units and sanitation blocks, a community center, school, several retail shops, a water tower, electric service to the community, and a five-acre community garden in which to grow food, the Lil’ Red Village has the potential to help more than 600 people in the community.
• In 2009, Food For The Poor constructed New Haven Village in Siriki, Guyana. The village consists of 70 double-unit houses, sanitation blocks, a community center, a school with 12 computer workstations, several neighborhood retail shops, access to potable water, and a community garden area to grow food. Many of the residents wept when they first learned they would receive a Food For The Poor home free of charge.
• In 2010, Food For The Poor developed Princeville along the remote Essequibo Coast, which included 65 two-room houses with sanitation blocks, a community center, trading post, water project, and a school renovation.
• Food For The Poor has delivered more than a dozen computer workstations to the newly built technology/reading room at Montrose Primary School in Guyana. The workstations will help students improve their reading skills and, for many, will provide their first experience with computer technology.
• Food For The Poor works with eight orphanages as part of the Angels Of Hope program. Through this program, 220 children receive shelter and an education. Most importantly, they receive the loving care that every child deserves.
• Since the inception of Food For The Poor’s Prison Ministry Program in 1998, Food For The Poor has assisted in freeing, training and reintroducing non-violent prisoners back into the community as productive citizens twice a year – the week of Christmas and during Easter’s Holy Week.