CORAL SPRINGS – In preparation for Hurricane Dean, the first major hurricane of the 2007 storm season, Food For The Poor put its emergency preparedness operations into high alert today. The largest provider of aid to the Caribbean and Central America stands ready to assist should disaster strike.
“We will have a team in place to immediately assess damage and report back to us on the most urgent needs,” said Executive Director Angel Aloma. “We also are taking steps to secure our own facilities, especially in Jamaica, where we have offices and a distribution center that serves the entire island.”
Food For The Poor maintains operations in multiple locations in the Caribbean: Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Dominica, and Grenada. It also serves Guyana, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua in Central and South America.
Food For The Poor has been assisting the people of the Caribbean since 1982, distributing aid through a network of churches, missionaries, hospitals, orphanages and schools located throughout the entire region. The organization provides housing for the destitute and has built more than 40,000 homes for the poor.
To assist with the work of Food For The Poor, visit the Web site at www.foodforthepoor.org or call 800-487-1158.
Food For The Poor, the third largest international relief and development organization in the nation and the largest charity headquartered in Florida, does much more than simply feed the millions of hungry poor in 16 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Since 1982, we have provided clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and emergency relief, with more than 96% of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.
