Guyana - Facts

Guyana – Fast Facts

Food For The Poor began working in Guyana on June 3, 1991, delivering food and other basic items to Guyana’s poor. Since then, the Florida-based nonprofit 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.

Key projects focus on different aspects of development:

• More than 1,700 housing units have been built for the poor in Guyana. These simple 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. These include:  housing, water, sanitation, schools, clinics and self-sustainable 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.
• More recently, Food For The Poor 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 seven orphanages, as part of the Angels of Hope program. Through this program, 163 children receive shelter and an education. Most importantly, they receive the loving care that most have been lacking previously.

Projects recently completed or underway include: 

Food For The Poor also serves Guyana through donations of goods. Shipments to Guyana include goods that serve basic needs, as well as food, medicine, general healthcare items, and educational supplies.