All Nighter For The Poor

'Chay La Lou': the Things Haitian Women Carry

2010-06-03T13:36:00.001-07:00

‘Chay La Lou’: The Things Haitian Women Carry

by Martha St. Jean 05-28-2010

She is my mother. She is my aunt. She is my next door neighbor. I recognize her familiar gait; the quick-paced step. Most importantly, I recognize the invisible burden she carries. I know a Haitian woman before I know a Haitian woman. I recognize the unfair share of hardships and sorrows. Her face may be unlined, you may not be able to tell if she is 40 or 60, but her eyes will tell the story.

I saw this woman, her head down, fierce determination written on her face, so as to not miss the bus. She is everybody yet nobody. I instinctively knew she was Haitian. The thought came to me, “Chay la lou,” meaning the burden is heavy. I thought of the things she carried on her person. The intangible: the humiliations, hopes and dreams, and the tangible: the flowing skirt, the shopping bag and the Bible tucked into the corner of her black leather purse.

It’s the intangible things Haitians carry that make them strong. Many spoke of the “phenomenon” of Haitians dancing in the streets after the earthquake and watching that woman who was everybody and nobody, I suddenly understood something new about the dancing. She, like they, though heavy laden with cares and anxiety, did not carry the heaviest burden of all: fear. In spite of life’s inner failures and outer fightings, many chose to cast fear aside.

Why worry about tomorrow? Why worry about the what ifs of life? I call to remembrance the Creole song:

Chay la lou,
Chay la pa pou mwoin
Chay la lou
Chay la pa pou mwoin

The burden is heavy
The burden is not for me

My people, separated from me by land and sea, sang that day and danced in the streets because they knew the burden was not theirs; it belonged to someone higher and infinitely more powerful. If we could just learn to trust as they trust, just maybe, maybe we would be as rich in love and poor in fear as they are on the island. Then, we too would have a reason to sing and dance.

Martha St. Jean is a first generation Haitian-American journalist and media analyst based in New York City. She is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and earned her undergraduate degree in communications studies at New York University. Follow her on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/MarthaStJean

The Power of a Parish – Helping one person, one family at a time

2010-06-02T14:02:00.001-07:00

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/the-power-of-a-parish-1.html

Cool Quote...Twain is Timeless

2010-06-02T13:47:00.000-07:00

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

2010 hurricanes may wreak havoc on oil spill, Haiti

2010-06-02T11:47:00.000-07:00

2010 hurricanes may wreak havoc on oil spill, Haiti http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/in-the-news/hurricanes-havoc-haiti.html

Lynn University Recipient of Heroic Leadership Award

2010-06-02T09:33:00.001-07:00

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/prnewswire/2010/06/02/prnewswire201006020653PR_NEWS_USPR_____DC13971.html

DYK? In Guatemala, widespread malnutrition means nearly one in two children under age 5 is stunted

2010-06-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

While Guatemala is the largest Central American country in terms of population (14.6 million) and economic activity, its largely rural, Mayan population live in extremely difficult conditions. Distribution of land, income and other wealth is controlled by a small percentage of Guatemala’s Spanish-speaking population. An estimated 75% of Guatemalans live in poverty, and the roughly 5 million Mayans are isolated socially, economically and politically due to geographic and language barriers, as well as the lack of educational and economic opportunity. The country’s social indicators are among the worst in the hemisphere. Overall adult literacy is estimated at 70 percent, but literacy among Mayan women is estimated as low as 30 percent. Less than half of rural Guatemalans have access to running water, only a quarter have access to electricity and less than one in ten have access to modern sanitation facilities. Infant, child and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in Latin America.
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/about/work/guatemala.html

Water after 20 years for Lewisburg

2010-06-01T11:50:00.000-07:00

Imagine living in a community that has little or no access to clean water because the only water source is in dire need of repair. In such a community, residents, including women and children, have to travel great distances to obtain water from springs that are sometimes unhealthy.
These were just a few of the challenges that faced the over 1,800 residents of Lewisburg in St Mary who have been without proper access to clean water for the past 20 years.
Just recently, however, charity organization Food For The Poor, in partnership with the Parish Council of St Mary, responded to the plight of the residents by providing the community and its environs with safe, clean and potable water.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/in-the-news/water-for-lewisburg.html

College Students Raise Awareness and Funds to Build a Second School in Jamaica

2010-06-01T09:02:00.000-07:00

For the second year in a row, members of Lynn University’s Students For The Poor lived in tents and fasted, as well as sponsored a public forum in order to bring attention to the desperate living conditions of those who remain homeless and in need throughout Haiti. For several years the campus organization has partnered with the international relief and development agency, Food For The Poor, to provide food, emergency relief assistance, access to clean water, the construction of homes and schools, and the shipment of medical and educational supplies to the destitute.
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/college-students-raise.html

haitianinternet.com: Food For The Poor building houses in Haiti

2010-05-28T12:17:00.001-07:00

For the millions of desperate made-homeless-by-the-earthquake people in Haiti, there is some good news: Food For The Poor is making progress in building more and more houses in Haiti. The charity organization is aiming to build 400 to 500 houses per month in Haiti and they are already in the building process.
There is a Haitian saying "Yo baw kabann, epi-w mande dra." It simply means that, many times, we forget to say "thank you" for the little things that people do for us. Instead we criticize them for not doing more.
Right now, the focus is on getting the earthquake victims in Haiti off the streets and into a safe dry place for the long term.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/in-the-news/ffp-building-houses.html

All - Nighter For The Poor: My Journey http://bit.ly/asfnJO

2010-05-21T06:34:00.000-07:00

All - Nighter For The Poor: My Journey http://bit.ly/asfnJO Please read and comment about this special person's experience in Jamaica.

Check out our new FB fan page for "All-Nighter 2010"!

2010-05-20T13:18:00.000-07:00

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Rebuilding Haiti.mov

2010-05-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

A post earthquake look at the situation in Haiti after the disaster, and Food For The Poor's efforts to help rebuild housing for suffering Haitians.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FoodForThePoorInc#p/u/2/b3r8-OGEKx0

Four Months After Haiti Earthquake: Need Continues

2010-05-19T11:22:00.000-07:00

More than a million people remain homeless from the January earthquake as hurricane season looms over the Caribbean country of Haiti. The homeless, the hungry, those struggling to survive myriad challenges make up the images of the picture of Haiti four months after the earthquake. The need is everywhere – if an area was not directly hit, it has been affected by the migration of those looking for food, for water, for more than a tarp over their heads and dirt under their backs when they finally lay down at night.
"If there is one thing that everyone should know about the efforts to help the people in Haiti, it is that the need is ever-present, and we will be doing this work for a long time," said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. "The people are struggling day-to-day, and we are their only hope. While we are working hard to meet their needs, we have to do more and make it happen more quickly for them. We need everyone’s help."
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/four-months-after-quake.html

South Florida Medical Director Strikes the Right Note for Haiti

2010-05-19T08:17:00.001-07:00

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 17, 2010) - VITAS Innovative Hospice Care is presenting a benefit concert in Coconut Grove for Food For The Poor's Haiti relief efforts. The concert, on Friday, May 21 from 6 to 9 p.m., will be at Flavour, an old church that has been converted into a lounge and nightclub

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/south-florida-medical.html

Hope Takes Root in Haiti

2010-05-19T08:15:00.000-07:00

To celebrate Haiti’s Labor Day, more than 1,500 people planted more than 25,000 trees high up in the mountains of Mahotière, which is just south of Port-au-Prince. Now Mahotière, the farm community where the trees were planted, has a strong head start to combat the heavy deforestation, soil erosion and hunger that have become the area’s reality. Food For The Poor donated the trees, and staff oversaw the well-choreographed tree planting by the community on the mountain slopes.
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/hope-takes-root-in-haiti.html

A little girl needs your help to build homes in Haiti

2010-05-19T08:13:00.000-07:00

During the past year, Rachel Wheeler, 10, has raised money to construct 12 concrete double-unit houses with access to sanitation and potable water in Leogane, Haiti. Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States will be building these homes in this very poor coastal community. The country’s dire housing needs were compounded by the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake that leveled most of Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/a-little-girl-needs-your-help-2.html

Friends, family keep Crispinelli's efforts to change the world alive

2010-05-17T12:27:00.000-07:00

acorn-online.com: Friends, family keep Crispinelli's efforts to change the world alive
Disasters and crises tend to unite communities in aid, and that is certainly the case after the untimely and tragic death of Stephanie Crispinelli of Katonah, the former Rosenthal JCC volunteer and camp counselor who died on a humanitarian trip sponsored by her college during the earthquake in Haiti in January. In April, the Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester launched the “Stephanie’s Caring Bears” project, and the community has rallied around the cause. Also, her family has created the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund to continue her dream of helping the needy.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/in-the-news/friends-family-keep.html

College Students Raise Awareness and Funds to Build a Second School in Jamaica

2010-05-10T10:28:00.000-07:00

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 4, 2010) – For the second year in a row, members of Lynn University’s Students For The Poor lived in tents and fasted, as well as sponsored a public forum in order to bring attention to the desperate living conditions of those who remain homeless and in need throughout Haiti. For several years the campus organization has partnered with the international relief and development agency, Food For The Poor, to provide food, emergency relief assistance, access to clean water, the construction of homes and schools, and the shipment of medical and educational supplies to the destitute
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/college-students-raise.html

Clinton Global Initiative University 2010 Inspires College Students

2010-05-03T10:46:00.000-07:00

Clinton Global Initiative University 2010 Inspires College Students
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (May 3, 2010) – Former President Bill Clinton announced this month that more than 290,000 people worldwide would be impacted positively by the commitments of college students nationwide at the third-annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU). Among those chosen to attend the meeting at the University of Miami were Miami Dade College students who pulled an “all-nighter” with the international relief agency Food For The Poor to raise funds to construct a self-sustaining tilapia project in Haiti.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/

Nonprofit Uses Computers to Fight Poverty

2010-04-30T12:53:00.000-07:00

By the middle of May, every orphanage in Food For The Poor’s Angels Of Hope program will have computers for the children who live there. Recognizing that education and technology are crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty, the largest international charity in the United States has shipped 636 computer workstations this past year to 94 orphanages in developing nations.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/nonprofit-uses-computers-to.html

Jamaican Consulate Helps to Serve the Poor in Haiti

2010-04-30T12:47:00.000-07:00

The Consulate General of Jamaica presented a donation to the United State’s largest international charity, Food For The Poor, for their relief efforts in Haiti.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/jamaican-consulate-helps-to.html

Students Travel to Jamaica With a Purpose

2010-04-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/students-travel-to-jamaica.html

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (April 26, 2010) – Students and faculty from St. Joseph Academy Catholic High School in Jacksonville, Fla., traveled to Jamaica last month on a house building trip with the international relief and development organization Food For The Poor.

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba to Perform Memorial Concerts for Lynn University

2010-04-27T09:48:00.001-07:00

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba to Perform Memorial Concerts for Lynn University - http://bit.ly/c8RRfi 1 minute ago via web
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Spring Breakers Help Rotarians Try to Set New Guinness World Record

2010-04-19T12:30:00.000-07:00

A faculty advisor’s visit to his native Jamaica seven years ago made him aware of the critical lack of reading materials in school and public libraries island-wide. Through his experience, students at University School of Nova Southeastern University, involved in the Books For Jamaica project, were inspired recently to help Rotary Clubs in Jamaica set a new Guinness World Record. To make the group’s goal a reality, they partnered with South Florida-based international relief organization Food For The Poor.
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/spring-breakers-help.html

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Kids Doing Good

2010-04-15T12:53:00.000-07:00

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/sfl-kids-good-deeds-ugc-pictures,0,2175842.ugcphotogallery
Student photos from University School of NSU, Lynn University, Deerfield Beach Elem. and the Scouts are posted on the Sun Sentinel's Web site.
Please "Post a Comment" about some "good news" regarding some "very good" young people!

Three Months After Haiti Earthquake: Rebuilding

2010-04-15T09:33:00.000-07:00

Please read this report about work we are doing in Haiti three months after the earthquake.

We are interested in your comments. Please press the "Comment" button and send us your thoughts.
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/three-months-after-haiti.html

First Friday Fast--for Haiti

2010-03-17T05:15:00.001-07:00

The people of Haiti still need our help. After the devastating earthquake in January, the people of Port-au-Prince are struggling to rebuild their lives. These families lost everything in the disaster, and they aren’t able to feed their children.
You can make a crucial difference for Haitian families in need.
By making a small monthly sacrifice -- a "first Friday fast" -- and donating the money to Food For The Poor, you can provide lifesaving food to suffering children.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/church_school/friday/
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/church_school/friday/email.html

Vocational Center in Guatemala Teaches Baking, Dressmaking and Literacy

2010-03-15T14:15:00.000-07:00

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 15, 2010) - For those who once scrounged for recyclable scraps of metal or bottles at the garbage dumps in the hopes of a meager payment - the Quetzaltenango vocational skills training program offers hope for a future. The program teaches people how to attain self-sufficiency and financial independence.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/vocational-center-in.html

catholickey.blogspot.com: How bad dog breath built two villages in Guyana

2010-03-11T09:12:00.000-08:00

Joe and Judy Roetheli know what poverty is. Both grew up in humble surroundings: Joe on small farm near Hermann, Mo., and Judy in a small, sand-road town in Florida, where her father worked as a butcher/salesman and her mother ran an in-home daycare plus raised their own five children. Joe, who with his sister, was the first in his family to go past the eighth grade, went on to earn a doctorate in agricultural economics and Judy a degree in education...
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/in-the-news/catholickeyblogspotcom.html

Disaster Relief

2010-03-10T05:22:00.000-08:00

Natural disasters can strike anywhere without notice. Merciless earthquakes, storms, floods, landslides and eruptions can cause unimaginable damage and claim precious lives. Depending where these natural disasters hit, families can lose homes, property, their means of livelihood… and they may even suffer injuries or fatalities.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/about/topics/disaster-relief.html

Keller High School Teens 'Band' Together for Haiti

2010-03-05T05:16:00.001-08:00

The Keller High School Culture Club had something to prove after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti -- teenagers want to help too.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/23/1990641/keller-high-school-teens-band.html

Major Milestone Reached for Boca Grande Friendship Village

2010-03-03T05:19:00.000-08:00

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 1, 2010) – Just a few days away from its first fundraiser, the Boca Grande Friendship Village committee has met its first important milestone. They have raised more than $100,000, enough for Food For The Poor to begin constructing the first phase of the planned community in Pierre Payen, Haiti.

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/major-milestone-reached-for.html

swrnn.com: No more empty bowls in Temecula

2010-03-02T05:50:00.000-08:00

Choose a handmade bowl. Fill it with soup. Keep the bowl.
That is the slogan of a student-driven community service project, Empty Bowls Temecula, to raise money for the area’s hungry.
As many as 75 students, teachers and parents gathered Saturday in a ceramic classroom at Temecula Valley High School. The goal was to hit a quota of 1,000 bowls...

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/in-the-news/swrnncom.html

All-Nighter for the Poor universities and World Food Day

2009-10-27T14:13:00.000-07:00

World Food Day http://bit.ly/3La0JT

Luther College CHIPS “Raising Awareness, Saving Lives - Luther joins the nationwide event, ‘All-Nighter for the Poor,’ to raise hunger awareness” By A

2009-10-05T08:20:00.000-07:00

Share your thoughts. Luther joins nationwide event, ‘All-Nighter for the Poor-http://bit.ly/phMPL

All-Nighter" test with musical guest, tomorrow at 5P

2009-09-29T11:23:00.000-07:00

All Nighter 2009 Test 1

October 16th is coming!

2009-09-24T13:45:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys! Don't forget that this event in on October 16th 2009. Please sign your team up so you can fundraise. If you have any questions please call us at 877-654-2960 ext 6988. Thank you so much!

The world’s poorest people currently spend half their income on food, according to the World Bank.

2009-09-23T10:02:00.000-07:00

Please share your thoughts and thank you.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=arKqhOxl6n6g

Congrats to Miami Dade College for hitting 100 members on their team! What an amazing blessing for the poor

2009-09-23T08:51:00.001-07:00

Thank you

A Food Solution for Haiti: Fishing Villages

2009-09-17T11:45:00.000-07:00

http://bit.ly/EmmPw

Haiti's changing tide

2009-09-16T10:58:00.000-07:00

Haiti's changing tide: a sustainable security case study http://bit.ly/10oYXk

The Soy Products Factories Project 2009

2009-09-10T13:15:00.000-07:00

The Soy Products Factories Project 2009 will establish factories for the production of soymilk and byproducts that will be distributed to local orphanages, nursing homes, and day-care centers. Milk and dairy foods are expensive, which make them limited in supply. The Soy Products Factories will help reduce agency budgets, freeing up monies previously spent on expensive dairy products for other immediate needs.

Hatian singing group "Supremacy" confirmed to perform live at "All-Nighter."

2009-09-10T08:02:00.000-07:00

http://bit.ly/19Ht5y

A Food Solution: Aquaculture

2009-09-09T12:20:00.000-07:00

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organism such as fish, shellfish and aquatic plants. It is an environmentally sound and cost-effective channel for developing countries to augment food supply and enhance nutritional intake.

A Food Solution-Goat Breeding

2009-09-09T12:08:00.000-07:00

The Goat Breeding and Distribution Project will provide for the establishment of
a goat-breeding farm. Two hundred local goats (Haitian-born goats) will be purchased for
reproduction. Five premium goats, which will be purchased from the Dominican Republic, with
the objective of crossbreeding -- mating with the local (Haitian) goats, which are of substandard
quality, to produce superior offspring. A security watchman and caretaker will maintain the goat
farm.

The "All-Nighter" agenda is out!

2009-09-09T11:57:00.000-07:00

Download the "All-Nighter" agenda for the night! Go to this site under "Resources"

http://bit.ly/1wURM2

Health Is A Human Right

2009-09-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

"The goal is nothing less than the refashioning of our world into one in which no one starves, drinks impure water, lives in fear of the powerful and violent, or dies ill and unattended. Of course such a world is a utopia, and most of us know th...at we live in a dystopia. But all of us carry somewhere within us the belief that moving away from dystopia moves us towards something better and more humane." Dr Paul Farmer

http://bit.ly/jKc06

"All-Nighter" is October 16! Sign up now!

2009-09-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

"All-Nighter" is October 16! Sign up now!

Chicken Farming-A Food Solution

2009-09-04T09:03:00.000-07:00

Protein deficiency is one of the greatest causes of malnutrition in the Caribbean and Latin America. The gift of baby chicks will not only help provide a family with a sustainable form of protein (eggs), but the sale of extra eggs can also be a supplemental source of income. Chickens, endearing birds that require modest space and effortless nurturing, are the ideal product for a self-sustaining animal husbandry initiative. Chickens are economical and require minimal maintenance, and the protein from their eggs will help prevent the devastating
effects of malnutrition. With this initiative, the backyard of any rural home can be the source of
plentiful eggs and meat for a whole family.

The price of mud as food

2009-09-04T08:48:00.000-07:00

At 5 cents apiece, mud cookies are a bargain compared with food staples. 80% in Haiti live on less than $2 a day!

Books about the countries that will be served

2009-09-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

Please learn about the counries we serve. Go to this link at the bottom of the page, and please read these books.http://bit.ly/1wURM2

Mud cookies

2009-09-03T14:03:00.001-07:00

"When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds, 3 ounces, he weighed at birth.

Mud as Food

2009-09-03T13:26:00.000-07:00

Mud has long been used by pregnant women and children in Haiti as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where a mom shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings, and two unemployed parents, cooki......es made of dirt, salt, and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
Unacceptable.
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Haitians trick empty bellies with dirt cookies

2009-09-03T11:43:00.001-07:00

Haitians trick empty bellies with dirt cookies
Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.

Help end this!

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Join All-Nighter Now!

2009-09-03T09:40:00.000-07:00

JOIN NOW!! Students Nationwide Commemorate World Food Day By Pulling An “All-Nighter for the Poor” http://bit.ly/1JJqa2

Haiti 2009

2009-09-02T13:44:00.001-07:00

As another hurricane season approaches, people in Haiti are still digging out from a devastating series of storms last summer and fall. The storms of 2008 brought massive flooding and mudslides that killed about 800 people and left more than 100,000 homeless.

All-Nighter tweets

2009-09-02T12:54:00.000-07:00

Don't forget to tweet your own press releases, blogs, etc. regarding All-Nighter 2009 on your custom All-Nighter Twitter accounts!!!

Miami Dade College makes early donations to "All-Nighter for the Poor"

2009-09-02T11:34:00.001-07:00

Early donations for food solution projects for the poor. Congrats to Miami Dade College $2026! http://bit.ly/1mJnli

Students Nationwide Commemorate World Food Day

2009-09-02T11:01:00.000-07:00

Students Nationwide Commemorate World Food Day By Pulling An “All-Nighter for the Poor” http://bit.ly/1JJqa2

Join "All-Nighter for the Poor"

2009-09-01T13:27:00.000-07:00

This night will change lives.

www.allnighterforthepoor.org

2008 Haiti Storms

2009-09-01T08:41:00.000-07:00

Very critical in view of the already high level of food insecurity in Haiti, significant damage has been done to agriculture and the entire harvest of the current agricultural season has been either lost or severely damaged. Nearly all agricultural land has been flooded, resulting in the loss of the current corn, bean and banana harvest, particularly in the regions of the south and south-east.

Please join www.allnighterforthepoor.org and help establish food solution projects!

Internal Parasites

2009-08-31T09:07:00.000-07:00

National surveys show that 72 percent of children aged 6–12 in rural areas suffer from iodine deficiency; 32 percent of school-age children are infected by intestinal parasites. In Haiti, almost 30,000 babies suffer of mental deficiencies because their mothers suffered from iodine deficiency during pregnancy. Source: WFP

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Undernutrition in Children

2009-08-31T08:15:00.000-07:00

Undernutrition contributes to 53 percent of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries. This means that one child dies every six seconds from malnutrition and related causes. Source: Solcom.com

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84% of water-related deaths occur in children under age 14. www.allnighterforthepoor.org

2009-08-28T09:15:00.000-07:00

84% of water-related deaths occur in children under age 14. www.allnighterforthepoor.org

Join "All-Nighter" now! Colleges have already started fundraising!

2009-08-27T09:54:00.000-07:00

Our goal: $250,000.00
Amount raised: $1,986.15
Number of teams: 12
Number of participants: 40

Be Judicious With Your Communication

2009-08-26T08:17:00.000-07:00

Tell us your thoughts about this: 84% of water-related deaths occur in children under age 14.
This is an awful statistic and not something that can be answered with a quick email. Think about it, really think. And then, please send your thought.
Thank you.

Haiti barely hangs on

2009-08-25T12:36:00.000-07:00

Please send your thoughts and prayers and help us help Haiti
Haiti barely hangs on http://bit.ly/11nNuC

Water

2009-08-25T11:33:00.000-07:00

4500 children die each day from diseases caused by contaminated water.
Please join us at www.allnighterforthepoor.org

Preventable water-related diseases

2009-08-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease, that's 4 deaths per minute!
Please join us and help.
www.allnighterforthepoor.org

"All-Nighter" donations for food solutions

2009-08-25T09:34:00.000-07:00

Please DM your thougts: Funds raised from "All-Nighter for the Poor" will go to "food solution programs"in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Funds from "All-Nighter" for Food Solution Projects

2009-08-25T09:13:00.001-07:00

Please DM your thougts:
Funds raised from "All-Nighter for the Poor" will go to "food solution programs"in the Caribbean and Latin America

Children Pick Through Trash for Food

2009-08-25T07:33:00.000-07:00

Families here cannot feed their children, so they resort to picking through trash for scraps to recycle and salvageable items to resell or even food to eat. Children with no shoes, dirt on their faces, and lice in their hair are everywhere on an average day. Many of them having a rusty color in their hair from exposure to the methane gas in the dump.

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2009-08-25T05:39:00.001-07:00

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Fundraising Goal

2009-08-24T10:43:00.000-07:00

Set a $1,000 fundraising goal. Ask 50 friends and family to donate $20 each, less than $2 an hour for the time your are participating (12 hours).

Haiti-One third of newborn babies are underweight

2009-08-24T09:45:00.000-07:00

In Haiti, one third of newborn babies are born underweight; acute undernutrition among children under 5 is 9 percent; chronic undernutrition is 24 percent; 50 percent of pregnant women and two thirds of children under 5 are affected by anaemia.

What do you think about this?

Haiti Fact

2009-08-20T08:01:00.001-07:00

76 percent of Haitians live with less than US$2 per day and 56 percent on less than US$1 per day, below the poverty line. Source: UN World Food Programme

Poverty

2009-08-19T09:54:00.001-07:00

When we are not afraid to confess our own poverty, we will be able to be with other people in theirs. -Henri Nouwen, priest

If you cannot attend the Orientation Breakfast'

2009-08-12T07:42:00.000-07:00

If you/your college cannot attend this particular meeting (August 18), please let us know a convenient time for you and we will do another tutorial.In addition, we will be having some "practice" "All-Nighter for the Poor" sessions, to make sure everything is working right, so please check your updates for these run-throughs.

Purdue University student and Jamaica

2009-08-12T07:25:00.001-07:00

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/purdue-university-student.html

Clinton and Haiti

2009-08-10T06:13:00.000-07:00

Bill Clinton tells diaspora: `Haiti needs you now' http://bit.ly/ue17O

A Difference

2009-08-07T12:42:00.001-07:00

"Each day when I awake I know I have one more day to make a difference in someone's life." -James Mann (b. 1946); writer

Miami Dade College

2009-08-07T12:33:00.001-07:00

October 8 Miami Dade College Interamerican Campus is hosting a colloquia re: All Nighter with a guest speaker from Food For The Poor.

Kimberly

2009-08-06T11:33:00.001-07:00

The girl on the "All-Nighter" page is Kimberly. She is from Haiti. Her distended stomach means she is starving.

Join and help now. http://bit.ly/q9mqC

School Lunch-Global View on Hunger

2009-08-03T07:56:00.001-07:00

Please take a moment to view this short film on hunger. Thank you.http://www.examiner.com/x-16819-Global-Hunger-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Short-Film-Calls-for-Global-School-Lunch-Program-to-Fight-Hunger

Hunger Hits 1 Billion

2009-08-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

A headline that should not be.

Hunger in Haiti-"All-Nighter for the Poor"--Let's work together
Today at 9:25am
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090731/world-hunger-hits-historic-high-of-1-billion/index.html

"All-Nighter" fan page on Facebook

2009-07-28T09:23:00.000-07:00

Please view our "Food Solution" videos on the "All-Nighter" fan page.On this page you will see a video of the horror of eating cookies made of dirt (Haiti) to the miracle of a fishing village that provides commerce, food, stabilty, etc.To become a part of the "food solution" please register at our site below. October 16, 2009-"One night will make a difference."
www.allnighterforthe%20poor.org

"All-Nighter" fan page on Facebook

2009-07-27T09:36:00.001-07:00

Become a fan of "All-Nighter for the Poor on FB http://bit.ly/ZyPMF

A "Food Solution" Project--A Haiti Fishing Village

2009-07-22T10:04:00.000-07:00

Please view a "food solution" project in Haiti: a fishing village.Thank you. http://bit.ly/9MSrf

Purdue University student shares passion for reading with Jamaicans

2009-07-20T14:04:00.001-07:00

http://bit.ly/xfjA9

"All-Nighter" site-updated

2009-07-20T12:42:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, have you checked out the "All-Nighter" website recently? We've added a quick info. box with basic questions and answers about the "All-Nighter" event to help clarify some common misconceptions. Don't forget, the event will be accessible all over the world via Internet, so Wherever you are, you can check us out and participate!

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/fundraising-event/all-nighter/

Article on Global Food Crisis

2009-07-20T08:40:00.000-07:00

AllNighter2009Interesting article on the global food crisis http://bit.ly/4Ci7Qs

Homes for Haiti

2009-07-14T08:09:00.000-07:00

Girl raises thousands of dollars for Haiti West Palm Beach News, South Florida Breaking News, Forec
Source: www.wptv.com
A 9 year old girl raises thousands of dollars to build homes in Haiti.

New Facebook Fanpage

2009-07-10T12:21:00.000-07:00

We are now on facebook!!
Check out our new fanpage here.....

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/All-Nighter-For-the-Poor-2009/100464852453?ref=s

Hope in Haiti

2009-07-10T07:14:00.000-07:00

Life Taken at an Early Age Inspires Legacy of Hope in Haiti Christianpost.com
Source: www.christianpost.com
When Julie Sokulski Hesser's parents lost her at 32, they were inspired to help others by Julie's strength, faith and courage during her final days. Remembering how Julie could not even swallow water at the end of her life, they decided to share the gift of water with children in Haiti. ...

El Corte Community Development

2009-07-09T11:11:00.000-07:00

El Corte Community Development
self-sustaining communities in the border area between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Haiti-Home for the Handicapped

2009-07-09T10:21:00.000-07:00

Emergency relocation of home for the handicapped, Haiti http://bit.ly/aLfbP

New "All-Nighter for the Poor" website!

2009-07-09T08:41:00.000-07:00

The new website for All-Nighter for the Poor is up! Will you spend one night to change a life? We need volunteer leaders to form groups at your campus, your church or in your community to participate in All-Nighter on October 16th. Sign up now at www.allnighterforthepoor.orgAll-Nigher for the
http://www.allnighterforthepoor.org

New home

2009-07-09T07:21:00.000-07:00

The Kiwanis Club of Providence, which worked closely with the Food For the Poor and Scotiabank on a major Labour Day project to construct a two-bedroom timber house for an almost destitute family of six, has furnished them with a brand new divan bed.www.jamaicaobserver.com Source:

Haiti and UN

2009-07-08T13:30:00.001-07:00

Bill Clinton wraps up first visit to Haiti as UN special envoy -- http://tinyurl.com/memaaj about 1 hour ago from webless than 10 seconds ago from web

Technical

2009-07-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

Latest: There are some tech difficulties with our FB events page, but please continue to follow us on Twitter, allnighterforthepoor.org, our blog and My Space