June 10,2009 Helping the Poorest of the Poor
The largest international charity in the United States is distributing nearly $4 million worth of confiscated counterfeit shoes to poor families in Haiti.
Food For The Poor is handing out more than 122,000 pairs of knockoff Nikes to destitute men, women and children throughout the Caribbean nation. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California originally seized the shoes. U.S. officials turned the phony footwear over to nonprofit organizations, and Food For The Poor was tasked with making sure the shoes went to those in need. Twenty-one shipping containers of these shoes have already arrived in Haiti.
FFP in the News
Kaieteur News: Food for the Poor celebrates 18 years of benevolence in Guyana
Stabroek News: Food For The Poor and Guyanese pilot sponsor school feeding programme
The Bulletin: Raising Roofs In Nicaragua -- Retired Priest Has Raised Over $1M To Build 300 Houses
Jamaica Gleaner: Mother of six gets new home from Food For The Poor and Bank of Nova Scotia
Kaieteur News: Food For The Poor donates computers to Guyana organization that teaches orphans and vulnerable children
Palm Beach Post: Cash flow from U.S. to Haiti slowing
pnj.com: Pensacola boy raises money to build more homes in Haiti
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Food For The Poor's Operation Starfish® Program
Eleven years ago at Church of the Nativity in Burke, Va., Father Richard Martin asked his parishioners to help build houses for Haiti's destitute by saving 50 cents a day per family during Lent. The initial 2,500 families responded enthusiastically to Fr. Martin's idea and surpassed their fundraising goal to build 27 houses. Their efforts launched Food For The Poor's Operation Starfish® program.
Jamaican farmers donate part of bean crop to Food For The Poor
Bean fields and bean stalks have graced both great literature and children's fables, and now a simple red bean plays a starring role in a miracle story in Jamaica.
Is charitable giving a wedding trend?
It may have started in 2005 when Emmy-Award-winner Christina Aguilera gave her wedding gifts away to help Hurricane Katrina victims, but whenever it started or for whatever reason, it seems that more and more couples are using their weddings as an occasion to help charities.
A man's legacy unites a community -- Father Chuck's Challenge
Twenty-seven members of the greater Philadelphia community traveled this month to Nicaragua with Monsignor Francis X. Schmidt and Food For The Poor to dedicate two self-sustaining villages in La Rica, Nicaragua. When Frances' Village and Father Michael McGivney's Village are complete there will be 200 homes, latrines, a community center and projects for water, animal husbandry, and agriculture. The Holy Family and St. Eleanor health clinics also were inaugurated during the trip.
Another deadly crossing calls attention to Haiti's plight
A capsized boat, an urgent Coast Guard response and bodies gently transported to a temporary morgue set up on a South Florida beach on Wednesday were more reminders of the increasingly desperate situation in Haiti.
Hurricane Preparedness Checklist -- 2009
Food For The Poor's warehouse in Coconut Creek, Florida is stacked to the rafters with emergency relief supplies for this year's hurricane season. "As we do every year, we are preparing for the worst and praying for the best," said Angel Aloma, Food For The Poor’s executive director.
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Fundraising and other administrative costs comprise less than 3%; more than 97% of all donations go directly to programs that help the poor.
