Food For The Poor Annual Report Highlights a Year of Milestones
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 3, 2025) – Food For The Poor (FFTP), one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the United States, provided more than $367 million in aid in 2024, delivering vital support to communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. The impact, made possible through the generous support of its donors and partners, is detailed in the charity’s newly released 2024 Annual Report.
The report underscores FFTP’s mission-driven work to facilitate paths out of poverty and transform the lives of families facing the devastating impact of poverty, natural disasters, and food insecurity.
“We are so grateful to the legions of donors, partners, and friends who continue to support our mission each year – particularly when many are struggling themselves to make ends meet,” FFTP President/CEO Ed Raine said. “Because of them, we can focus on our mission. We will continue to honor our legacy to help children and families in need, while also expanding our focus to include creating sustainable communities, so residents are self-sufficient.”
As part of this effort, FFTP introduced SHARPEN, a three-year strategic plan that aims to refine and expand the charity’s approach. Unveiled in November 2024, SHARPEN focuses on five main goals:
- • Helping people build self-worth, grow stronger, and become leaders in their communities.
- • Improving the way that FFTP plans, tracks progress, and grows as an organization.
- • Collaborating with local leaders to create lasting programs and solutions to build stronger, more resilient communities.
- • Forming stronger, deeper relationships with donors and supporters.
- • Remaining transparent in its operations and ensuring that every dollar donated makes the biggest impact.
In addition, the 2024 Annual Report highlights the charity’s historic ceremonial groundbreaking in December 2024 for the Zion Entrepreneurial Community with its partners, Entrepreneurs Across Borders and UpMobility Foundation. It is the charity’s first sustainable community development in Jamaica and represents a milestone for FFTP as it returns to its roots to make a more significant impact in the first country where it began working more than 40 years ago.
Other highlights of the year include:
- • Forging New Paths Out of Poverty: FFTP’s longstanding partner the Republic of China (Taiwan)/Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund provided the first in-kind donation of 1,000 metric tons of rice and funding for a women’s empowerment project benefiting 10,000 families in rural Guatemala. In addition, the TaiwanICDF donated 8,240 metric tons of rice to combat food insecurity for hungry families in Haiti and completed its three-year commitment to support the P4H Global Quality Education Initiative to train teachers and school leaders to support student success.
- • Improving Livelihoods and Food Systems in Northern Haiti: In partnership with Acceso, FFTP and IDADEE launched a seed-to-market model in Balan, Plaine du Nord, Haiti. The two-year project is intended to increase the income of 100 farmers by providing training, equipment, supplies, and support to improve their farms and make farmland productive with edible crops to take to market. The project is funded primarily through longtime partner Light a Single Candle Foundation. The nursery is producing fruit and vegetable seedlings and through 2024, 86 farmers have been selected to benefit from the seed-to-market model.
- • Spreading the FFTP Mission Through Music: Award-winning Jamaican recording artist Glacia Robinson headlined the charity’s annual Food For The Poor Day celebration by releasing her latest album, “Hands of Mercy,” during a live performance in the charity’s headquarters in May 2024.
- • Supporting Childhood Nutrition and School Meals in El Salvador: FFTP and World Food Program USA celebrated a partnership in October 2024 by launching a joint World Food Day campaign to support a school feeding program to deliver Biofortik, a fortified nutritional supplement, to 60,000 children in El Salvador. The initiative will also invest in improvements at a local Biofortik plant, funding upgrades to infrastructure, machinery, safety protocols, personnel training, and production processes that will ultimately help boost the economy.
- • Addressing the United Nations: FFTP continued to elevate its voice and advocacy in global development in July, when Raine addressed the United Nations High-Level Political Forum and shared insights into the organization’s partnerships and sustainable development work, particularly alongside the Order of Malta.
- • Expanding its Reach: The charity launched its first podcast, titled Beyond the Plate, in July. The show, which features inspiring stories and interviews, has reached audiences in 283 cities across 28 countries.
Click here to see the FFTP 2024 Annual Report.
About Food For The Poor
Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry children and families living in poverty primarily in 15 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, water, medicine, educational materials, homes, support for vulnerable children, care for the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance. For more information, please visit foodforthepoor.org.
Ernestine Williams
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