“As often as you did it for the least of my brothers and sisters, you did it for me.” – Matthew 25:40
Who We Are
Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated (FFP), is the largest charitable Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Guyana.
We commenced operations on 3rd June, 1991 in Kingston, Georgetown and we are presently located at 1999-2002 Blue Mountain Road, Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
FFTP is headed by a Board of Directors chaired by Mr. Paul Chan-a-Sue and the daily operations are managed by Mr. Kent Vincent, Chief Executive Officer. It was previously managed by former Executive Director Mr. Leon Davis who retired in 2012 after 21 years of outstanding service to the organization.
Our goal is to help to alleviate poverty and improve lives by providing relief, rehabilitation and sustainable development to all Guyanese.
Our faith inspires us to be an organization built on compassion and motivated by love. Our mission is to bring relief to the poorest of the poor in Guyana.
Apart from Guyana – Food For The Poor Inc operates in the following countries:
Antigua Belize
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Nicaragua
Peru
St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
United States of America
History
In 1982, Ferdinand Mahfood received a Christmas present from his wife. It was a book called “Something More”, written by Catherine Marshall. As he turned the pages of the book, while on a flight to Chicago, Ferdy (as he is properly known) was moved by the writer’s call to serve God in a more intimate and committed way. He wanted to have a closer relationship with God and to experience the fullness of his love.
A Jamaican by birth, Mr. Mahfood had inherited a successful import business from his father and had eventually moved the business to Miami. Since boyhood, he had given donations to the poor and continued to do so as his business flourished. In 1982, after rededicating his life to God, he decided to use his business expertise to serve the poor.
He has already seen the gut-wrenching poverty in the slums of Jamaica, and he increased his donations to the poor in that country. But Business expertise alone could not alleviate the suffering and poverty of millions in Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. So Ferdinand Mahfood became a beggar for the poor, combining his business expertise with the donations he received, to start a chain of giving that today results in relief projects and programs in more than two (2) dozen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.