Food For The Poor feeds hundreds of thousands of people each day and, since our inception in 1982, we have built more than 95,302 homes, built or expanded hundreds of schools, and provided more than $18.3 billion in aid to the poorest of the poor.
Additionally, primarily in 15 recipient countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, we provide emergency relief assistance, water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for vulnerable children, skills training and micro-enterprise opportunities.
Our purpose is to bring urgent relief to vulnerable families affected by poverty. We design our assistance programs to empower our beneficiaries to become self-sufficient and ultimately inspire them to build strong communities so their members can help each other. We constantly seek simple, efficient strategies to fight hunger and poverty without adversely impacting our aid recipients or their country.
While our charity organization was founded on the religious principle that it is our moral duty to clothe and feed the poor (Matthew 25:40), Food For The Poor is neutral, impartial, apolitical, and encompasses all religions and beliefs.
FFTP holds preserving human dignity and caring for those in need as a universal value. Our short-term focus is to demonstrate that poverty is not inevitable, and that people can break out of poverty with the proper assistance. We partner with subject matter experts, local and international NGOs, universities and colleges, churches, and service organizations to achieve our goal.