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Food For The Poor, Inc. - 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Organization: Faith-Based, Food Distribution
Facility Type: Warehouse
Status: Open

Address:
Stateside Address:
6401 Lyons Road
Coconut Creek, FL 33073

Region:Haiti, Caribbean
County/Parish:



Main/General Business Number: (954) 427-2222
Website: http://www.foodforthepoor.org/

Management Contact: (hidden)
Management Phone: (hidden)

Mission: Food For The Poor provides emergency international relief to Latin America & the Caribbean — and takes swift action whenever and wherever people need help.

Food For The Poor ministers to spiritually renew impoverished people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1982 as a 501(c)(3) corporation, our goals are to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of the men, women and children we serve. Food For The Poor raises funds and provides direct relief assistance to the poor, usually by purchasing specifically requested materials and distributing them through the churches and charity organizations already operating in areas of need.


Areas Served: Haiti



This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

PRESS RELEASE:

Food For The Poor Rushes Aid to Haiti
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
01/16/10

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 16, 2010) – In an effort to get as many aid items into Haiti as quickly as possible, Food For The Poor is directing food, water and medical supplies into the Dominican Republic to be sent over the border and into the hands of the hurting Haitian people.

The charity also will be sending pallets of critically needed medical items by air directly into Port-au-Prince on Sunday.

Food For The Poor, the largest international charity in the United States, will send 189 tons of goods in this shipment. The charity already had sent 100 containers of rice, canned food and medical supplies to Haiti -- most of which is already in place in Port-au-Prince and ready to be distributed. With the port there damaged and the need growing, Food For The Poor executives are expediting shipment of aid to accelerate relief activities.

“It is critical that we get this relief as soon as possible into the hands of the Haitian people and to the people who are trying to help them,” said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. “We are hearing today that orthopedic supplies are particularly needed for the trauma patients that medical staff and volunteers are treating. They are seeing terrible wounds.”

The medical supplies and equipment already housed in Food For The Poor’s Haiti warehouse were taken to a Petionville hospital on Friday night. On Saturday, trucks of food left the warehouse to be distributed to the feeding centers.

The goods are part of Food For The Poor’s initial goal to provide $5 million in relief to the struggling nation, as it recovers from one of the worst natural disasters in its history.

Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. For more information, please visit www.foodforthepoor.org

Kathy Skipper
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
(954) 427-2222, ext. 6614
kathys@foodforthepoor.org

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Haiti Earthquake Updates and Links
On January 12th a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Devastating aftershocks followed. The current number of dead and missing is estimated to be between 100,000 and 500,000. The entire capital of Port-au-Prince appears damaged or destroyed.

Food For The Poor is ready to help! To donate to the Haiti earthquake relief effort. SEE THE CHOICES for the many ways to help!!!

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/help/quake_updates/

Info Source/Changes:

Created At: Thu Jan 14 22:08:56 +0000 2010
Updated At: Wed Mar 03 02:48:47 +0000 2010
Updated By: LTel


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