Food For The Poor, Inc. - Children

Orphaned and abandoned children in the Caribbean and Latin America need a safe, loving environment to grow and thrive. FFP provides shelter, education, medical care, food and clothing for needy children and orphans.

Why do we exist?

Food For The Poor exists as God’s instrument to help the materially poor and to renew the poor in spirit.  Our assistance efforts in the Caribbean and Latin America empower local churches, clergy and lay leaders with goods and supplies to assist those who are living in desperate poverty.

What have you accomplished?

The care and nurture of children has been a foremost priority in all of the work of Food For The Poor.  Our feeding programs target school-age children, our housing program benefits entire families, our water projects enable children to have a disease-free source of water.  Our educational supplies provide the learning essentials to schools, and our medical programs benefit hundreds of thousands of children.

Throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, thousands of children have been orphaned or abandoned. These precious children need a safe, loving environment in which they can grow and develop. Food For The Poor has specially selected orphanages to participate in our Angels Of Hope program. These orphanages are nongovernmental homes where the children can grow and develop mentally, physically and spiritually in a loving, Christian environment. Food For The Poor donors have sponsored approximately 3,600 children in nine countries. In addition to our Angels Of Hope program, more than 450 orphanages received aid from Food For The Poor in 2010.

Education continues to be the key to ending the cycle of generational poverty. The families you help, desperately want a better life for their children but are unable to give it to them. Your gifts provide books, teaching materials, furniture, food and scholarships – you help build entire futures for hopeful youngsters.
 
In 2010, Food For The Poor provided 400 tractor-trailer loads of educational supplies to schools in the Caribbean basin.

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