Champions For The Poor - Personal Fundraising

Champions For The Poor are people just like you and I who have decided that they want to do even more to help the poor. They are young people like Rachel Wheeler and Pierce Loiselle who are reaching out to family and friends to help build homes for those who have no home. They are churches like Christ The King and St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church who have been touched by the images and stories of poverty that they've seen and heard and have decided to organize and make a difference. If you or a group that you're involved in would like to become a Champion For The Poor, please email us and tell us about your plans. We'll do the rest.

— The Food For The Poor Web team

Housing

Lahatte, Haiti...bring beauty from ashes

Rejected and alone is how many people feel in Lahatte, Haiti. They feel alone because they have no one to help them.

Barbara’s Village

Barbara Gilbert doesn’t own a home… but she’s given 14 destitute families in Jamaica a new Food For The Poor home of their own.

Andre and Valerie Yunis

One step at a time, one house at a time, one dollar from each friend. Andre and Valerie hope you can help them accomplish their goal.

Rachel’s Fundraising Page

Inspired by a recent visit to Food For The Poor, Rachel Wheeler, 9, plans to build a 25 homes in Haiti.

Father Chuck’s Challenge

Monsignor Francis X. Schmidt witnessed firsthand Food For The Poor’s assistance to those in greatest need the homeless, abandoned sick children, and the disabled elderly.

Home For The Holidays

For the past eight years, I have been privileged to work for Food For The Poor as a project manager for Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guyana and El Salvador. During that time, I have experienced some amazing things and seen how people’s lives can be changed when a helping hand is extended to them.

Christ The King’s Fund

Who is my neighbor? The question once asked of Jesus is now asked of us. Haiti and Jamaica are but a few hundred miles off U.S. shores, yet they seem a world away from our concern. Until, that is, Food For The Poor helped us see our neighbor’s face.

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Food

Join Rob Davis in his quest to feed families

I was first introduced to Food For The Poor in 2002, and since then I have developed a deep deep bond with the work that they are engaged in. During this time, I have traveled to both Jamaica and Haiti a combined seven times, seeing some of the most dire circumstances on the planet, certainly without question in the Western Hemisphere.

Pierce Loiselle’s Fund

My name is Pierce and I am 8-years. I read that people are having to eat cookies made out of clay and salt because they don’t have enough food. I want to raise enough funds so that 10 families can have their lives changed!

In Memory of Yvonne Sinclair-Cadet

The Yvonne Sinclair-Cadet School Feeding Center will benefit countless disadvantage children. This project will be constructed at a financially strapped rural community school in Jamaica and will provide, in some cases, the only meal a child will have that day.

Guatemala’s Soy Milk Need

According to UNICEF, malnutrition causes half of children’s deaths worldwide. In Guatemala, for example, while malnutrition contributes to 48 percent of deaths in children under age five, 83 percent of these deaths occur in children whose level of malnutrition is considered moderate or mild.

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Water

Port De Paix Haiti Water Project

Thank you visiting our web site. We are travelers from Atlanta, Georgia who have now several times gone into poverty-stricken Haiti with Food For The Poor, visiting people in Cité Soleil, Cap-Haitien, Port-de-Paix and Gonaïves. We have decided to do something about the water situation.

Water 4 Them

Millions of people don't have access to clean water, and often only have access to contaminated water that makes them sick. We want to help.

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Education

School for Jamaica

“Jesus has a special place in His heart for poor people. In Luke 12:34, Jesus said, ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.’ I used some of the money God has entrusted to me to develop a heart for His poor ones [in Jamaica].”You can be a part of the solution! Please join us by making a donation today.

Celebration of Life School

The Poor in Jamaica have become my extended family over the past 6 years. The Celebration of Life School is in honor of a nine-year boy, Thomas who fights cancer and inspires strength, hope and learning to other children.

Jay and Lori

Jay and Lori will be joined in marriage with Fr. Tony officiating. It is their wish that, in lieu of wedding gifts, monetary gifts be made to the Benito Petito School Project in their honor.

Summerfield Basic School

Having received our primary and secondary education in Jamaica, and having migrated to the United States at various times and under various circumstances, our group of friends came together and decided to reach back to our home country and seek out a small under-served community where we could make an impact.

St. Francis Xavier Parish

Shortly after our group arrived in Kingston, Jamaica we visited several outreach centers throughout the area. Elijah's Trail Training Center, a men's prison and Jerusalem Children's Home, were all very touching to say the least.

Benito Pitito School

Please help in funding this essential school enhancement construction project. Founded in 1960, the Benito Pitito School, located in Managua, Nicaragua, provides a tuition-free education, including two meals a day to approximately 675 enrolled students. Most of the students, many from impoverished families, walk long distances to attend school here.

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Miscellaneous

Small Hands with Big Hearts

Small Hands with Big Hearts is a fund started by a group of neighborhood parents looking to help out some less fortunate families across the world.

Pikmi La Gonave, Haiti - Tilapia project

As you may know, this project has been a labor of love. For over a year, we have been raising funds for a fishing village in Pikmi on the island of La Gonave, Haiti. The need there is tremendous.

St. Luke Lutheran Church

We want you to know that we care about you and your loved ones. Our desire is to offer every assistance we can toward your spiritual and personal growth.

St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church —
Little Children of Jesus

Of the many miracles Jesus performed I believe that he was most emotionally touched and moved by those who could not take care of themselves, because of physical or mental reasons.

Basa Farming

Our Little Children of Jesus Orphanage in Santo, Haiti is in need of food and protein to relieve the hunger and malnutrition that takes place in their daily lives. The orphanages primary mission is to rescue physically and developmental impaired children from destitution and/or premature death due to abandonment, hunger and other unspeakable realities

Tilapia Pond Project

God has given me so many blessing that if I were to barely begin to scratch the surface of the infinite list, I could go on for centuries. But how do we repay someone who needs absolutely nothing? To me the answer is quite simple. By helping those who need everything. My starting goal is to raise enough money to build a tilapia pond.
Stephany G.

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