Girl Power Starts With Education
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Leave No One and No Place Behind
“One of the core missions at Food For the Poor Canada is to provide those in need with safe and secure homes,” says Executive Director, Samantha Mahfood. “We understand the need for communities to be inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.”
It’s a Chicken and Egg Situation!
Twelve families in the remote village of Baramita, Guyana now have eggs to eat on a daily basis. This is because of our donors. Let us tell you more.
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Bogue Hill Infant School
June 2, 2016
The project will enable the capacity to grow from 20 to 60 students, providing free early childhood education to the surrounding communities.
Help us ship lifesaving medicines to Jamaica and Haiti
April 19, 2016
You can help us send critical and lifesaving aid to communities in Haiti and Jamaica today.
Volunteers build Salt Marsh Infant School
March 16, 2016
Food For The Poor Canada's donors and volunteers kicked off 2016 by building our 16th school.
You built our 16th school in 2016!!
March 16, 2016
Food For The Poor Canada builds it's 16th school in Jamaica.
Students from Kingston, Ontario build a home for a family in Jamaica
February 20, 2016
Family in Jamaica receives a new home built by twenty students from Kingston, Ontario.
Food For The Poor Builds Its 70th School In Jamaica
February 19, 2016
On February 8th and 9th, Food For The Poor built Salt Marsh Infant School in Trelawny, Jamaica. Since 2012, Food For The Poor and its donors have built 70 schools across the island.
Students at Salt Marsh receive the gift of reading
February 15, 2016
Children at Salt Marsh Infant School receive books from Canadian donors.
Serena Williams Breaks Ground on New School in Jamaica
February 10, 2016
Time and time again, tennis star Serena Williams has proven she’s a force to be reckoned with in the sports world, yet many may not be familiar with her various philanthropic endeavors.
Riana wishes you a Merry Christimas!
December 24, 2015
A Merry Christmas from the many children you have supported this year.
Thank you for making our Thanksgiving Lunch a great success!
October 28, 2015
Food For The Poor Canada held our third annual Thanksgiving Lunch at The Toronto Hunt on the weekend. The lunch was an opportunity to celebrate our donors, supporters and partners and raise funds for the community of Petite Riviere de l’Artibonite in Gressier, Haiti.
Audit Trip Reveals Medicines Distributed Across Jamaica 1-2 Weeks After Arrival
September 3, 2015
Medicines are offered to local partners before they arrive and distribution begins across the island nation within 1-2 weeks of arriving.
Food For The Poor Canada’s largest volunteer school build is completed
August 1, 2015
Children from Triumphant Basic School got a surprise on their last day of the school year: a tour of the new school they will return to in September. The project is the largest school build to date by Food For The Poor Canada and replaces a building that held 150 children in a two-room school.
Urgent appeal as the Haitian Refugee Crisis grows
July 20, 2015
As the numbers increase along the Haiti/Dominican Republic border, Food For The Poor Canada asks for your help in responding to an urgent need for housing.
Triumph! FFP, partners build basic school in Montpelier
July 19, 2015
July 3 was the dawn of a new era for the board members, administrators and students of Triumphant Basic School in Montpelier, St James.
Read our 2014 Impact Report
June 15, 2015
Food For The Poor Canada invites you to read our 2014 Impact Report. It has been a busy year, and Food For The Poor and its donors “Got it done”. We are honoured to work with you to create change and look forward to working with you in 2015.
Food For The Poor Canada Prepares to Host Second Volunteer Build With MLSE Ltd. and Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation
June 4, 2015
Staff of MLSE Ltd. and friends and family of Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation have teamed up again to build their second basic school in Jamaica, with Food For The Poor Jamaica and Food For The Poor Canada.
Food For The Poor Canada builds school with Kardinal Offishall and Dwight Drummond
May 7, 2015
Thank you to all who participated in this rewarding build; the children of Spicy Hill will move into their school in September, with more room, better sanitation, a new playground, water system and a beautiful new school that is all their own.
Sunwing Foundation Begins Construction on Spicy Hill Early Childhood Institution in Jamaica
April 29, 2015
The Sunwing Foundation is delighted to announce that building work began last week on the charitable initiative’s first project — the funding and construction of a new, state of the art school in Trelawny, Jamaica in collaboration with Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation and Food For The Poor Canada.
Soup distribution in Haiti
April 11, 2015
Food For The Poor Canada works with Ontario Christian Gleaners and Joy and Hope of Haiti to ship and distribute vegetable soup mix to Haiti.
Spicy Hill Basic School
April 11, 2015
Spicy Hill Basic School was built to accommodate up to 75 children in a bright, spacious and healthy learning environment.