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Children rejoice at their new school built by generous Food For The Poor donors in Guatemala.
“Give thanks to the L ord , who is good, whose love endures forever.”
(Psalm 106:1)
Dear Friends in Christ, I challenge you.
I challenge you to look through our 2015 Annual Report and not see the good we accomplished together on behalf of the poor this past year.
Message President from the A E
I challenge you to look at the numbers and not see the faces of the people you have helped through your generosity and kindness. Reflected in those smiling faces is the transformation you have made possible.
I challenge you to not see our endeavors as good stewards of every dollar donated to us, for we know that each donation represents the good faith entrusted to us to help the destitute. Through diligent cost-cutting measures throughout the organization, we achieved an efficient overhead ratio while still maintaining our Christ-centered mission to assist the poor.
I challenge you, as you read every fact and figure, to not understand that without people like you, none of this would be possible.
Lastly, I challenge you as we continue on the journey we embarked upon in 1982 with the founding of this organization, to not see that what matters most is the heart of our mission — caring for our brothers and sisters as we would for Christ.
I pray that God will continue to bless you for many years to come. Thank you for all you do for the poor.
A servant of the poor, Robin G. Mahfood
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Administr Ative 2015 summary of activities* Total Expenditures ...... $1,159,007,617 Operating Expenses .................. $42,019,168
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Tractor-Trailers of Aid Distributed .................. 3,660 *Subject to final audit. —————————— ON THE COVER: Three-year-old Carolina stands in the doorway of her family’s makeshift home in Guatemala. table of contents A Message From the President 1 Feeding the Hungry 2 Sheltering the Homeless 4 Developing a Future 6 Healing the Sick ....................................... 8 Teaching the Children 10 Caring Partners 11 Caring for Angels 12 2015 Financial Statement 14 Giving Thanks 16
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“Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You…”
(Matthew 25:37b)
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Five-year-old Maria in Nicaragua enjoys a mouthful of rice and beans as part of a feeding program at her school. Children at a rural school in Guatemala line up to receive lunch. A happy girl in Titanyen, Haiti, enjoys her lunch at a donor-supported feeding program.
In 2015, your kind generosity helped to deliver lifesaving food to hungry children and families.
Your donations help us to quickly and efficiently provide food to nutritional centers, clinics, churches and feeding programs in desperately poor communities.
Thanks to you, we are able to provide 15,000 meals per day, six days a week, to the hungry poor at our feeding programs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This is only one of the hundreds of feeding centers that our generous donors support in Haiti. Children and families trek miles in the sweltering heat to receive what may be their only meal of the day.
In Guatemala, where widespread poverty has led to an alarming amount of malnourishment, you are supporting feeding centers that keep the desperate poor alive.
Because of your generosity and sacrificial giving, starving children in Honduras and Nicaragua were fed. And in Jamaica, your support has helped to establish hundreds of food-generating projects, allowing the poor to sustain themselves.
You are the instrument God uses to save starving children throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
You are an abundant blessing in the lives of the poor. Thank you for nourishing souls, alleviating suffering and feeding the hungry.
Feeding Facts & Figures
In 2015, thanks to you, more than 56.6 million pounds of food were distributed to feed malnourished children and their families. This included more than:
• 34.6 million pounds of rice
• 9.8 million pounds of beans
• More than 12.2 million pounds of canned and other assorted foods
Food For The Poor also supports hundreds of food-generating projects such as the ones listed on page 7 of this Annual Report.
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This past year, you made the dream of a new home come true for Briahanna, her mother and brother in Jamaica.
You helped to answer fervent prayers for safe shelter in 2015.
Through your generosity, Food For The Poor was able to build sturdy homes for homeless and needy families throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
You have given the poor who only knew sleepless nights an incredible gift. Thanks to you, poor families no longer sleep in shacks made of crude materials like rusted zinc, tarp, mud and sticks. Your generosity and love for the poor provided homes with a durable roof that protects children and families from heavy rains, and solid walls that keep the wind from blowing inside — all on a solid foundation.
The gift of safe housing is also a blessing for hope in the future. With doors that lock, mothers no longer worry about intruders entering and threatening the family. Children have a dry, quiet space to complete homework and focus on their studies.
Homes with sanitation save children and families from the terrible burden of having to use a field outside. Through you, God has provided refuge and relief from unimaginable suffering.
God bless you for helping to shelter our brothers and sisters in 2015.
housing Facts & Figures
In 2015, you helped Food For The Poor build 9,431 housing units for families in desperate need of safe shelter. Since 1982, loving donors like you have constructed more than 107,800 housing units for the poor.
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“This, rather, is the fasting that I wish… sheltering the oppressed and the homeless…”
(Isaiah 58:6a, 7b)
“For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the L ord… plans to give you a future full of hope.”
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(Jeremiah 29:11a, b)
Developingfuture a 2015 Projects summary
In 2015, you empowered poor families and communities with the means to escape poverty.
Thanks to your generous support, fishermen in Honduras are now able to motor safely out to sea. These men can now bring back bountiful catches of fish for their families and community as part of Food For The Poor fishing village initiatives — which continue to thrive in Haiti and Jamaica as well.
You provided fruit-bearing trees for hungry families, and equipped farmers with the tools and training they need to grow more food.
Thanks to your support, schools in rural areas were provided solarpowered computer workstations. These vital learning tools helped to provide computer skills to schoolchildren.
Whether you provided clean water, supported housing projects that gave vulnerable families a safe home, or provided vocational training for adults to run their own small businesses, you have supported Christ’s call for each of us to help the poor.
COUNTERCLOCKWISE : A fisherman in Honduras takes great delight in showing off his catch. Food For The Poor’s fishing village initiatives help poor fishermen sustain themselves and their communities economically. Soybeans to produce soy milk are stored in bags. Lorna holds a cup of soy milk from the “soy cow” machine that produces 80 liters of soy milk a day which benefits her school in Honduras.
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Project Cost Housing/Housing Villages* ................................. $ 13,904,875 Construction & Repairs........................................ $ 5,942,203 (for schools, clinics & multipurpose centers) Water/Sanitation .................................................. $ 4,160,839 Development & Self-Help Projects ..................... $ 1,713,549 (for aquaculture ponds, fishing villages,
nurseries, animal husbandry, etc.) Program Support................................................... $ 1,363,722 (for clinics, nursing homes, schools, feeding programs & orphanages) Total Projects ......................................................... $ 27,085,188
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*Utilizing matching housing funds
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“O L ord, my God, I cried out to You and You healed me.”
(Psalm 30:3)
You saved lives in 2015.
Your support of clinics, hospitals and nutritional centers delivered lifesaving treatment in 2015. God bless you for providing essential medicines, medical supplies and medical furniture, such as hospital beds, to help poverty-stricken children and families.
Your support of clinics, hospitals and nutritional centers offers affordable — and oftentimes free — treatment. You help the sick and suffering get back on their feet. Your compassion is like a warm hug; it embraces the poor with love and healing.
All too often, innocent children and families lose their lives to preventable or treatable diseases. Your support assures the poor receive the medical attention they need. You are a lifesaver.
Thank you for delivering hope and healing to the sick and suffering.
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9 COUNTERCLOCKWISE : Babies suffering from malnutrition are nursed back to health at nutritional centers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Food For The Poor provides medicines and supplies to these hospitals and clinics. Dr. Everardo examines 2-year-old Madelin at the Food For The Poor-sponsored Centro de Salud San Jose Pacquil clinic in rural Guatemala.
Country Tractor-Trailers Haiti .......................................................................... 188 Guatemala ................................................................ 152 Jamaica .................................................................... 112 Nicaragua ................................................................... 60 Honduras .................................................................... 54 Guyana ....................................................................... 43 Dominican Republic ................................................... 40 El Salvador ................................................................. 32 Other .......................................................................... 32
For The Poor shipped 713 tractor-trailer loads of medicines and medical supplies in 2015.
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You gave children from poor families the opportunity to receive an education in 2015.
Schoolchildren across the Caribbean and Latin America were able to crack open new textbooks, write on fresh paper with new pens and pencils and wear fresh uniforms to school. Because of you, they were able write at a desk and sit on a proper chair.
Children who were eager to learn became students enrolled in school — some for the first time — all because of you. We often hear from parents that the most important thing to them, aside from their children’s health, is their children’s education. Thanks to you and your Christ-like love, poor children are able to attend school and break free from the grips of crippling poverty.
(Proverbs 22:6, ESV)
EDUCATION FACT s
In 2015, you helped build, rebuild or contract to build 35 schools, and also helped ship 176 tractor-trailer loads of school furniture, books and supplies.
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First-graders and best friends, Yani and Yahaska, share a moment in class at a Nicaraguan school supported by Food For The Poor donors.
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
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Caring Partners
Food For The Poor relies on our many faithful partners to carry out God’s work of helping the poor.
We work closely with charities, churches of various denominations, community leaders and corporations to effectively deliver and distribute the lifesaving aid that is so urgently needed across the Caribbean and Latin America.
Our partners help us care for the poor in so many ways, from delivering food for malnourished children and babies, to ensuring that tractor-trailer loads of lifesaving aid are delivered and distributed quickly and efficiently where they are needed most.
In Guatemala, 2-year-old Marcos happily holds up cans of SPAMMY®, a nutrient-rich food supplement made by Hormel Foods that Food For The Poor distributes to children threatened by malnutrition.
The compassionate dedication of our partners helps us save lives. Thank you for your continued and loving support of our poorest brothers and sisters.
caring Partners
Items Tractor-Trailers
Shoes ...............................76
Clothing ..........................73
Total ..............................149
Our partners also helped to provide food, medical supplies and other aid listed elsewhere in this Annual Report.
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“I give thanks to my God at every remembrance of you, praying always with joy in my every prayer for all of you, because of your partnership…”
(Philippians 1:3-5a)
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“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans…”
(James 1:27a)
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COUNTERCLOCKWISE:
Kevin, 8, poses on playground equipment at a Food For The Poor-supported orphanage in Guatemala. Two-year-old Jazmin was found barely surviving in a shack made of cardboard scraps in Honduras. Now 4, Jazmin loves playing princess and is thriving in an Angels Of Hope orphanage. This orphanage in Haiti was built and is supported by Food For The Poor donors.
In 2015, you shared God’s love with innocent orphaned or abandoned children.
Through our Angels Of Hope orphan sponsorship program, you provided life’s essentials to children in need.
Our Angels Of Hope sponsors generously provided nutritious food, medical care, an education and a warm bed to sleep in at night for children in our specially selected orphanages. Your continued generosity assures these precious little ones a future where they can grow up learning about the Lord and loving Him. Thank you for showing children in need that they are remembered and loved.
The children in our Angels Of Hope program have faced many difficulties in their young lives, but the love and support of caring sponsors helps them to develop and grow into healthy adults.
angels of hope facts & figures
In 2015, through our Angels Of Hope orphan sponsorship program, you supported 5,212 children in 154 homes.
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2015Statement* F inancial
*Year ended December 31, 2015. Subject to final audit.
REVENUE EXPENSES
Contributions –Donated Goods: 89.1%
Contributions –Cash: 10.6%
Contributions –Pledges and Other Income: 0.3%
Program Services: 96.4%
Fundraising: 2.9%
Management: 0.7%
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF Statement of activit ie S Support and revenue: Contributions - Cash $ 123,159,802 Contributions - Donated Goods 1,033,332,065 Contributions - Pledges 2,229,785 Other Income 146,511 total Support and revenue $ 1,158,868,163 e xpen S e S : Program - Education $ 36,633,722 Program - Health Care 832,005,763 Program - Basic Needs 149,604,426 Program - Community Support & Development 64,874,094 Program - Intra-program Costs 33,870,444 Fundraising 33,985,031 Administration 8,034,137 total expenses $ 1,159,007,617 Change in net aSSetS $ (139,454) FFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF Statement of f inancial PoSition Assets: Cash & Cash Equivalents $ 10,946,544 Contributions Receivable 842,548 Property & Equipment 15,366,996 Goods-in-Transit 219,501 Other Assets 793,630 total Assets $ 28,169,219 LiAbiLities: Accounts Payable $ 3,670,609 Accrued Liabilities 1,138,876 total Liabilities $ 4,809,485 Net Assets: Unrestricted $ 23,324,985 Restricted 34,749 total Net Assets $ 23,359,734 totAL LiAbiLities & Net Assets $ 28,169,219 ————————
distributed in 2015*
3,660 tractor-trailers worth $1,062,061,836
board of dIr ECT or S
P. Todd Kennedy
Tax and Estate Planning Attorney
Chairman
William G. Benson
Certified Public Accountant
Vice Chairman
Robin G. Mahfood
Food For The Poor President/CEO
Grace Bonina
Business Professional
The Right Reverend Leopold Frade, D.D. Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida
Rhonda Maingot Missionary
His Eminence Óscar Andrés
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras C.A.
Most Reverend Patrick J. McGrath, D.D., J.C.D.
Bishop of San Jose, California, USA
Most Reverend Burchell McPherson Bishop of Montego Bay, Jamaica
Lynne G. Nasrallah, Ed. D. Adjunct Professor
The Very Reverend Monsignor Honorable Gregory Ramkissoon, OJ Missionary
officers
Robin G. Mahfood
President/CEO
Angel Aloma Executive Director
Alvaro J. Pereira
Executive Vice President
Most Reverend Burchell McPherson Treasurer
David T. Price
Secretary
Antigua .............................................. $246,761 Bahamas ............................................ $392,566 Barbados ......................................... $3,219,304 Belize $4,044,499 Colombia $1,446,986 Dominica ......................................... $6,248,092 Dominican Republic ..................... $61,444,347 El Salvador .................................... $53,921,986 Ghana $1,484,037 Grenada ........................................ $11,006,451 Guatemala .................................. $261,865,541 Guinea ................................................ $401,031 Guyana $25,891,695 Haiti $366,197,766 Honduras ...................................... $87,698,965 Jamaica ......................................... $68,577,904 Mexico ............................................... 1,442,588 Nicaragua $97,479,515 Philippines ......................................... $240,013 Saint Lucia ...................................... $2,326,123 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ........ $28,850 Trinidad $6,456,816 *Subject to final audit. ————————
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Warehouse employee at Food For The Poor’s headquarters in Florida loads pallets of emergency supplies into a shipping container bound for the Bahamas.
Thanks to kind Food For The Poor donors, Francesca, 8, and her 4-year-old sister Jovani dance with joy in their new home in Haiti. This new sturdy home keeps out the wind and the rain, and has solar panels to provide light inside the rooms at night.
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“Give thanks to the L ord who is good, whose love endures forever!”
(Psalm 107:1)
We are forever grateful for you, our loving Food For The Poor supporters and partners.
Your endless kindness and generous compassion brought about real change for the poor in 2015. We thank God for you, and the positive impact you made for poor children and families across the Caribbean and Latin America in 2015. Thank you for sharing your blessings with the poor.
For those who created a generous endowment through our Legacy Giving program, we are grateful and honored you chose Food For The Poor. Gifts, bequests and trusts are tremendous sources of support, and have a lasting effect in the lives of the poor.
Those who participated in Operation Starfish and Champions For The Poor programs understand the importance of helping one person at a time and how that one person’s life can be forever changed for the better.
Thank you to all the churches, clergy and Christian organizations in the U.S., Caribbean and Latin America who supported our work to aid the poor. You are a shining example of how God’s transformative love can turn despair into hope.
GNo matter what you did to assist the poor in 2015, Food For The Poor is grateful for you. Our goals for 2016 include expanding our reach to provide more food for the hungry, shelter more deserving families, drill more wells, educate more children, and help more families become self-sufficient. May God bless you.
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Feeding hundreds of thousands of children who need
Providing pumps & cisterns to many more thirsty villages who need safe
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Providing children with the precious and vital gift of
Helping families become self-sufficient
Thanks to your continued support!
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V i S io N S tat E m EN t
Food For The Poor is God’s instrument to help the materially poor and to renew the poor in spirit.
Our ministry is a reflection of our Lord’s unconditional love — a love that surrenders all, that inspires trust and faith, and that embraces all people, regardless of race, status or creed.
It is also shaped by our belief that Christ is alive and can be served directly by serving those in greatest need. (Matthew 25:40)
For guidance and to maintain the purity of our mission, we stress the need for regular prayer.
Through surrender, service and prayer, we seek a closer union with our Lord.
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Our mission is to link the church of the First World with the church of the Third World in a manner that helps both the materially poor and the poor in spirit. The materially poor are served by local churches, clergy and lay leaders who have been empowered and supplied with goods by Food For The Poor.
The poor in spirit are renewed by their relationship with and service to the poor through our direct ministry of teaching, encouragement and prayer.
Ultimately, we seek to bring both benefactors and recipients to a closer union with our Lord.
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Enoch, 4, stands in the entrance to his dilapidated home in Haiti.