Relief Efforts
Food For The Poor provides, as its main objective, nourishment to needy people. The organization also erects homes for homeless families, supplies medicine and health care in hospitals and clinics, subsidizes orphanages, teaches children and adults by providing knowledge and training for the careers.
Currently, the organization is active in eight mainland countries and nine island nations. They are:
- Belize
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Mexico
and
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- St. Lucia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Antigua
- Dominica
- St. Vincent
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