Those who had nothing have even less now

In August, September and October, three major hurricanes swept across Latin America and the Caribbean, further exposing poor families who were already vulnerable and enduring treacherous living conditions.

Hurricanes Dean, Felix and Tropical Storm Noel ravaged makeshift huts throughout Jamaica, Haiti, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Honduras. These flimsy homes, made of wood, corrugated metal and palm fronds, were the only shelter destitute families had. Today, amid the rubble of what once constituted their meager shacks, devastated poor families realize that what little protection they once had no longer exists.

In response to this urgent need for housing, Food For The Poor and Catholic Online have partnered in launching “A Home for the Holidays.” This life-altering housing project gives compassionate people like you the opportunity to transform lives by building a sturdy new Food For The Poor home for an unsheltered family.

This can be accomplished in two ways:

1) You can individually offer your help directly through this Web page.

or

2) You can set up a “Friends and Family” page that asks friends and family to help you build a sturdy home for an endangered family. Please click here to access this module.

Food For The Poor builds homes for the destitute for $2,600 — a modest amount, considering the incredible transformation that takes place in the lives of those in need. Any gift to help shelter a suffering family will be a blessing, especially in commemoration of the holiday season.

“This, rather, is the fasting that I wish…
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless…” (Isaiah 58:6a-7a)

Thousands of vulnerable families throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are in need of shelter right now. Through collective Christian charity, Food For The Poor and Catholic Online hope to partner with people like you to relieve the suffering of vulnerable unsheltered families. May God bless you for sharing the news of this blessed holiday opportunity with your friends and loved ones.

To learn more about the destruction left behind by this year’s devastating hurricanes, click here. To learn more about Food For The Poor’s ongoing hurricane emergency relief efforts, click here.

Slide show: A Home For The Holidays
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Founded in 1982, Food For The Poor is an interdenominational ministry working to end the suffering of the poor in the Caribbean and Latin America. Not only do we provide food for the starving, but we also build small houses for the destitute, dig water wells for parched villagers, provide medicine and medical equipment for the sick and elderly, support orphanages and education for children, and much more.

Catholic Online, located at www.catholic.org, is the largest Catholic Online presence on the Internet and has consistently provided the world wide Catholic Community with dependable and reliable content and Internet services for over 10 years. Today, Catholic Online provides over five million pages of content including the largest online historical and biblical database about the Catholic Church.