A Unique Way of Spreading Love

Sending someone a Christmas or greeting card is a great way to show you care. But sending someone a Banana Bark card spreads your love with an even greater number of people.

Banana Bark cards are made by impoverished women and men in Haiti who desperately need to earn a living so they can feed their children. When you order Banana Bark cards, you're offering poor Haitian parents the dignity of knowing they're able to put food on the table through meaningful work — rather than being forced to beg for scraps for their children.

After it falls naturally from the trees, the banana bark is gathered, meticulously cut into custom shapes and glued to the cards by each worker. Each handcrafted card is unique. Banana Bark cards are both beautiful and meaningful because of what they represent.

For some Haitians, our Banana Bark program is their main source of income. The higher the demand is for the cards, the greater the amount of work that's available for those who make them.

After losing her job as a maid, Cyncia Sarena turned to Food For The Poor for help. The Banana Bark program provided much-needed employment and made it possible for her to feed her five children. Cyncia recently told us, “I pray for the people who make this possible, and also for their families. To the people in America, I pray that God will give them blessings so that everything goes good for them.”

When choosing a Christmas or greeting card this year, please remember Haiti's poor and their beautiful Banana Bark cards. It's hard to find a card that can mean so much to so many people.