Food and layettes shipped to Jamaica

6,750 bags of dried vegetable soup mix, 600 baby layettes, mixed educational supplies and musical instruments loaded on a 40′ container this week. The container is currently headed to Kingston, Jamaica where the goods will be distributed to people in need by our partner on the ground Food For The Poor Jamaica. We were fortunate […]

30th School Built by Food For The Poor Canada in Jamaica

This past week, Food For The Poor Canada (FFPC) and Food For The Poor Jamaica welcomed Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation to build Mount Pleasant Basic School in St. Margarets Bay, Port Antonio, Jamaica. “We are humbled yet again by the support and commitment of all of our volunteers and donors that chose to partner with […]

Annual walkathon raises funds to build school in Jamaica

Together with our education partner Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation, Food For The Poor staff participated in the annual 5k walk for education also known as the Jam-walk to help raise funds for our upcoming school build in July in Port Antonio, Jamaica. It was a beautiful Saturday morning in Ashbridges Bay Park, Toronto enjoyed among friends and partners […]

ICHS Food and Nutrition Labs gets major upgrade thanks to Canadian donors

We recently joined forces with ICHS Alumnae Association Toronto Chapter to help rebuild the Food and Nutrition Labs at Immaculate Conception High School in Jamaica. On June 7, we loaded a 40′ container at Nella Toronto with necessary major appliances, furnishings, sinks, work tables, demo stations, shelving, small wares and cooking tools needed for the […]

School furniture for schools in Jamaica

On March 1, we joined forces with Lluidas Vale Rehabilitation & Development Foundation and a strong group of volunteers from our local community to load a 40′ container with donated school furniture for Jamaica. The container was filled with desks, chairs, tables, chalk boards, shelves, easels, cabinets and basketball hoops among other things, all donated […]

YOUR WORK IN 2017

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Join our Volunteer Trip to Jamaica – Sign up by January 31st!

Food For The Poor Canada is building Hampden Infant School in Trelawny Jamaica and is looking for volunteers.  This project will construct a new building that will include three classrooms, bathroom facilities, a kitchen, an office, playground, fencing and a water catchment system. Fundraise your donation of $3,000 to help build the school, by asking friends and family to make...

Food For The Poor Canada welcomes new board chair

Excerpt from Share News Robert Ready was turned on to Food for the Poor (FFP) while serving as Canada’s top diplomat in Jamaica. In 2013, he spent a day with the late Ray Chang and his crew of workers that built Accompong Basic School. Organized by FFP, the school was funded by the Ray Chang […]

100 Schools built in 5 years by Food For The Poor donors!

Food For The Poor Builds 100 Schools, Creating a Lasting Legacy in Jamaica  Toronto, Canada (Aug. 28th, 2017)  Food For The Poor has made history in Jamaica, the country where it started 35 years ago. Over the last 5 years, the organization has built 100 early childhood schools for 3 to 6 year olds across Jamaica, […]

Summer 2017 Volunteer builds: Little London Infant School

Food For The Poor Canada and Food For The Poor Jamaica in partnership with Helping Hands Jamaica, the Stephen Tulloch Foundation and more than 30 volunteers, recently got together to build Little London Infant School in Westmoreland, Jamaica. A fantastic group of volunteers, NFL players, their families and friends worked hard in the Caribbean heat alongside […]