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An army of workers mobilize to reforest their dying watershed. They get paid too: people living in poor communities of the northwest Haitian Artibonite overwhelmed by the population influx following the 2010 earthquake.
“Many people ran away from the Port au Prince disaster to live in the province”, recalls Jacques Vilgar, “A community already in a very bad socio-economic situation became twice as bad.”
AMURT’s Food For All (FFA) program in Washington DC has seen a four-fold increase in demand for food over the past four weeks, increasing from 140 weekly food recipients in late March to 503 in late April. The new clients include senior citizens with underlying health issues, people with disabilities, single parents with children to feed all day at home and the recently unemployed, especially those laid off from restaurants.
AMURT has been involved with the hunger problem amongst the poor and the homeless in Los Angeles for the last 25 years. Our breakfast feeding through Mama D's Kitchen is legendary amongst the folks of Skid Row. It makes a huge difference in their lives. The program is maintained entirely by volunteers and public donations.
In 2022, with many clients finding jobs, FFA went back to basics, supporting more homebound people. 50% of the new clients in 2022 were in poor physical or mental health, had disabilities, were elderly or were single mothers. FFA takes pride in helping provide a sense of security for those in unstable circumstances.
AMURT & DESPRI results in Haiti in the fields of social entrepreneurship, education, health, and the environment. This video presents the key achievements of AMURT-Haiti and DESPRI in Haiti over the last 15 years in terms of community strengthening, environmental progress, fighting malnutrition, and solving iodine deficiency.
In the white afternoon sun and dust, about a dozen children run through the barbed wire gate of the camp...
This is the story of Elianne Marcelus, one woman in our microcredit program, funded by AMURTEL donations! “Before the earthquake I...
In 2021, FFA broadened the scope of its program, responding to anyone seeking assistance, and not just those who are elderly or home-bound. Given the pressures of the pandemic, we wanted to ensure that food was one less thing for people to worry about, freeing up their scant resources for other pressing expenses.We were especially happy to support the newly unemployed and those forced into quarantine.
ood For All DC (FFA) had another impactful year in 2023. We grew as a useful resource for the D.C....