Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica is one of the main charity organizations in Jamaica. Food for the Poor Inc. located in Florida, USA, is the largest international charity in the United States. It is an interdenomininational relief and development organisation that assists the poor in 17 countries in the Caribbean and Central America.
FFP Jamaica partners with a number of stakeholders including churches, non-governmental and private sector organizations, children’s homes and service organizations throughout the island that deal directly with the poor to fill thier most urgent needs and to encourage self-sufficiency. The work of Food For The Poor is funded by donations.
Our goal is to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of the men, women and children we serve through emergency relief aid and programmes in the areas of housing, food, medical, water, sanitation, education, agriculture, outreach and micro-enterprise.
Mr. Nakhle Hado of Food for the Poor shows Prime Minister Bruce Golding how to prepare Lion Fish for cooking. The fish, which has the texture of the popular Parrot fish, is an invasive specie that has been eating popular plate fish in Jamaican waters. Mr. Hado explained how to safely remove the venemous spines and showed that the fish does not need much scaling. The Prime Minister later ate a sample of fried Lionfish provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in its booth at the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show on Monday, August 2.
Food For The Poor: One Month After Haiti Earthquake
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/11/10
General relief
Over the past month, Food For The Poor has been able to provide
relief to Haiti through the acquisition and delivery of more than 7,100
tons of food, medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, building materials and
other goods to support the victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake. The 359
containers have provided lifesaving goods to those suffering from the
effects of the earthquake. The people of Haiti have been provided with
more than 20 million meals from the rice, beans, canned goods and water
shipped into Haiti. Food For The Poor was able to immediately respond
to their needs because there were goods in the Port-au-Prince
warehouse, containers already in the port, and more containers on the
way when the earthquake hit.
