Food For The Poor and Hope for Haitians will be holding An Evening in the Tropics event at The Mauh-Nah-Tee-See Club, 5151 Guilford Rd, Rockford, IL 61107 on August 27 from 6 - 9 p.m. Funds raised at this event will support the construction of a village in Acul-Samedi, located in the commune of Fort-Liberté. There will also be a dinner and silent auction. Celebrating 20 years of providing hope for Haiti, this life-changing effort aims to provide safe, secure homes with proper sanitation for 75 families. Each household will receive a solar kit to supply nighttime lighting, energy, and […]

Food For The Poor will be holding its 43rd Annual Celebration of Hope Virtual Gala online on October 1 at 8 p.m. Experience a powerful and engaging hour of inspiration, hope, and charity. This free event seeks to help provide 25 safe, well-built homes, a community center, and a water well for desperate families waiting in faith in Mache Mango, Haiti. To RSVP, visit https://app.mobilecause.com/e/8K5pjA?vid=sw7c7

Food for the Poor, 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek will be holding its Honoring Our Veterans Community Day Event on November 11 from 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. The special day will kick off at 10:30 a.m. at the charity’s Coconut Creek headquarters, 6401 Lyons Road, with a half-hour program recognizing members of local veterans organizations as well as FFTP team members who have served. Army Col. J. Frank Melgarejo Jr., Chief of the Theater Civil Affairs Planning Team South at United States Southern Command, a longtime FFTP partner, will be the keynote speaker. Other guests include Coconut Creek Police […]

Food For The Poor, 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, will be holding its Hearts United Community Day on December 3 from 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. The charity will pack meal kits for 1,000 impoverished families in the Caribbean and Latin America. Join volunteers, who will pack 1,000 kits that will provide enough food to feed an average family of four for one week. In addition, FFTP is seeking food donations in precise quantities and sizes specifically selected to fit in each kit. The contents of each kit will include:   •     Vegetable oil, one 48-ounce bottle •     Corn meal, […]

Food For The Poor (FFTP), 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek will be holding its Hearts United Community Day on April 15 from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. The first Hearts United Community Day of 2023 will bring together volunteers from churches, schools, businesses and community groups to pack 2,000 women’s care kits that are a key part of the charity’s disaster response each year. FFTP prepositions relief kits every year to help countries and in-country partners rapidly respond to disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes. This year, kits will be sent to the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, […]

Food For The Poor (FFTP) will be holding its Seventh Annual Rafe Cochran Golf Classic at Trump International Golf Club, 3505 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach on May 1 from 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Rafe Cochran will host the 7th Annual Rafe Cochran Golf Classic to provide additional classroom space for 1,700 students in need at the Innswood High School in Innswood, Jamaica. The additional space is needed to create an environment that is conducive to learning. The event will be a fun outing for golfers of all ages and skill levels. Individual tickets cost $500. To RSVP, visit […]

Food for the Poor will be holding its We Are One National Celebration on September 28 at 7 p.m. This extraordinary virtual event aims to address food insecurity in the Caribbean and Latin America. The goal is to deliver 10 million meals to hungry children and families. There will be worship sung by Laura Story. To register, visit https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/63sCVA?vid=10g6zs

Food For The Poor (FFTP) will be holding its Feed the Pack event at Advent Lutheran Church, 300 E. Yamato Road, Boca Raton on October 7 from 9 to 11 a.m., noon to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Food For The Poor (FFTP) is inviting volunteers to Join The Pack and help provide 100,000 lifesaving MannaPack rice meals for families living in poverty in Honduras. In this file photo, Linda Coello, President/Founder of CEPUDO, Food For The Poor’s trusted partner in Honduras, is all smiles after making a special trip to South Florida in 2022 to participate in […]

Food For The Poor (FFTP) will be hosting a special prayer service for Haiti at Parkridge Church, 5600 Coral Ridge Drive, Coral Springs on April 26 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The event will bring together clergy, parishioners, and dignitaries who will collectively lift their voices in an expression of hope for peace in the troubled nation. The event will include updates from Mario Nicoleau, CEO of Food For The Poor-Haiti, and from the Bitar brothers, physicians at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince, who prefer not to use their first names. Nicoleau and the Bitar brothers are among the many […]

Food For The Poor (FFTP) will be holding the Eighth Annual Rafe Cochran Golf Classic at Trump International Golf Club, 3505 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach on April 29 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Participants will help 19-year-old Cochran raise money to fund much-needed upgrades at the Brompton Primary School in Brompton, Jamaica. This will be the seventh school in Jamaica that he has helped expand through Food For The Poor (FFTP). Proceeds from the classic will fund the construction of four additional classrooms, an administrative unit and guidance counselor’s office, and a staff restroom. Tickets cost $550. To register, […]