Food For The Poor is a Christian nonprofit founded in 1982, providing food, housing, medical aid and disaster relief to communities in 17 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Food For The Poor is an ecumenical Christian nonprofit founded in 1982 and headquartered in Coconut Creek, Florida. It is one of the largest international hunger relief and poverty alleviation organizations in the United States, delivering life-sustaining assistance to impoverished communities across Latin America and the Caribbean, with operations spanning 17 countries. The organisation is funded by charitable donations rather than venture capital and states that it remains neutral and apolitical.
Its work is organised around 10 anti-poverty focus areas and rests on large-scale humanitarian logistics and supply chain operations, alongside disaster relief and emergency response. Between 2019 and 2023 the organisation delivered more than 943 million meals, built 11,000 homes for families living in poverty and distributed donated goods and aid valued at over $3.2 billion. It has shipped 15,000 aid containers carrying emergency relief supplies to communities in need.
Programmes include food distribution and hunger relief, housing construction, clean water access, medicine and healthcare assistance, the distribution of educational materials, and in-kind humanitarian aid. The organisation describes its approach as holistic, aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty and preserving human dignity for those in greatest need.
Food For The Poor describes itself as faith-based but encompassing of all religions. It states a commitment to transparency and accountability and holds a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. More than four decades after its founding, it continues to serve families and communities across its countries of operation.
