Tag Archives | Philippines

Protecting precious girls

By on February 15, 2013 in Stories, World Poverty

My girls I have the incredible honor to be “dad” to two tween girls. By nature I want to protect them. As a steward before God, I take my responsibility to protect them even more seriously. I protect because they’re precious both to me and to God who gave them to me. My girls are growing up [...]

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Children inspiring hope

By on February 15, 2013 in From Our Leadership, Sponsor Impact, Stories, World Poverty

Since becoming Chief Development Officer at Food for the Hungry in 2011, I have spent a lot of time visiting our work around the world. A consistent heart-changing experience for me in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America is seeing the inspiring hope inside our communities. To look into the eyes of children who [...]

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End poverty by starting relationships

By on January 25, 2013 in From Our Leadership, Stories

Every morning, thousands of Food for the Hungry staff  walk, bicycle or drive into some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. Ending poverty is ultimately about the relationships and sharing of ideas that happen during these daily exchanges around the world, day in and day out. Eva Amor is one of FH’s staff building these [...]

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When the spotlight on disasters fade, the work goes on

By on September 7, 2012 in Disaster Relief, From Our Leadership

A few short weeks ago, the Philippines were hit with torrential rains that caused some of the worst flooding since the 2009 flood that killed almost 1,000 people. The capital, Manila, was 70 percent underwater and hundreds of thousands were displaced from their homes. Then on August 24, Tropical Storm Isaac hit Haiti and the Dominican [...]

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Helping Flood Survivors in Philippines

By on August 14, 2012 in Disaster Relief

  With rains continuing in the Philippines, and another possible storm coming on Thursday, August 16, Food for the Hungry staff continue to help flood survivors. From August 6 – 10, FH helped to set up a soup kitchen serving 300 people. Other relief efforts included a medical outreach, partnering with the Lifeline Foundation at San Roque [...]

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Philippine flood: Update from the field

By on August 8, 2012 in Disaster Relief

  Three days of monsoon rains caused flooding in nine provinces in the Philippines. The flooding forced approximately 250,000 people from their homes. Many of Food for the Hungry’s communities located near fast-moving, overflowing rivers have evacuated. Several FH staff have experienced flooding in their homes, like FH/Philippines Country Director Debbie Toribio.       [...]

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Empowering resource-poor families to send their children to school

By on April 30, 2012 in Sponsor Impact, Stories

They moved from their impoverished hometown to the crowded, almost-12-million-person capital city of Metro Manila in search of a better life. Finding Manila’s high cost of living too impossible, they moved again to San Roque, a coastal neighborhood about 10 miles outside the city. Settling there was illegal, but it was better than going all [...]

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FH embarks on aggressive campaign to prevent child sexual abuse in the Philippines

By on February 23, 2012 in Sponsor Impact

In 2008, FH began a partnership with the Stairway Foundation, Inc. (SFI) which defends vulnerable children in the Philippines from various kinds of mistreatment. This past year, FH joined SFI’s Break the Silence project to identify and equip a national network of individuals, communities and organizations committed to preventing and treating sexual abuse against children. FH’s area of coverage [...]

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Hope comes in the form of a 13-year-old boy

By on December 22, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Many years ago, the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy to encourage him in his leadership of other believers. “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers…” he said (1 Timothy 4:12). Today, a young man in the Philippines is setting an example for his peers [...]

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Seven ways women and girls are especially vulnerable during emergencies

By on August 10, 2011 in Disaster Relief, Sponsor Impact

I always sort of had an idea that women and girls living in extreme poverty suffered a bit more than men from disasters like war, a flood, an earthquake or a drought — it just seems logical, if you think about it. But I had no idea how much more acutely they feel pain from [...]

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