Palms for Life Fund is a not-for-profit corporation (501(c)(3)) dedicated to ending poverty by addressing its root causes. We are committed to providing poor people with sustainable opportunities to make the right choice for a better future. We work with local organizations to raise funds to educate schoolchildren, especially girls, improve the health of mothers and children and ensure food and water security for thousands of poor people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We also raise awareness about hunger in the United States. We connect our local implementing partners with donors and individuals who share our vision. We help them with the resources they need to function effectively with the communities they serve.

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Hannah Laufer-Rottman worked for nearly 30 years with the United Nations World Food Programme, where she held several senior positions. She knows what hungry and poor people experience every day of their life, from her work in 8 different countries in Africa and Latin America. She was a pioneer in designing a strategic plan in Ecuador that created a sustainable social feeding program for which she was able to attract large donations of food and cash. Thanks to her dedication, she brought hunger and poverty relief to millions of people.

She founded Palms for Life Fund as a vehicle to pursue her mission to help the hungry and the poor, and because she firmly believes there can be an end to poverty if we join our palms and reach out to each other.

Hannah has vast experience in managing social development projects; as Executive Director of Palms For Life Fund, she is assisted by a network of highly qualified professionals who currently reside or have lived in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and worked for large organizations in the public and private sector. This is what makes Palms for Life Fund an exceptional organization: the unconditional social commitment of its team members and friends, and a unified and strong capacity to advocate for the poor.

 

Palms for Life Fund establishes alliances with organizations that work directly with poor communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America to achieve social, economic and environmentally sustainable development.

Palms raises funds on behalf of those organizations to support projects which have already proven to be effective, and to produce results that have long lasting effects on the participants’ quality of life.

We bring the issues of equality, inclusion and participation on the forefront of our actions and make sure the voice of the poor is being heard loud and clear in all spheres of our society.

 

1. Art for Life
2. Chocolate for Life
3. Cooking for Life
4. Dancing for Life
5. Fashion for Life
6. Music for Life
7. Tees for Life

Educating and Feeding Schoolchildren	Ensuring the Health of Mothers and Infants
Developing Adult Literacy and Work Skills	Empowering Local Organizations

Please click here for the list of our ongoing projects.

Palms uses your donations to reach the poor in the most direct way by partnering with local organizations. Palms acts fast as the aid can not be delayed and people need to get out of poverty NOW!

 

Feeding and Educating for Life - Donate Now! With your contribution we will be able to help feed and educate hundreds of poor street children in Ecuador.

Goods for Life - Donate Now! With your contribution hundreds of computers will be shipped to poor schools around the world. * * Project executed jointly with Mercy Corps

Water for Life - Potters for Peace Donate Now! With your contribution we will help Potters for Life pursue the work of late Ron Rivera of installing filters in poor communities thereby providing clean water to the villagers, which means safer food and better health.

Green for Life – APRODES Donate Now! With your contribution Palms for Life will help women produce tomatoes and onions. The women will not only be able to produce more food, but will also be able to generate an additional income allowing them to buy clothes and medicine for their children.

Music Live Now – Música en Vivo Ahora Donate Now! With your contribution we will help brings live performances of quality music to children in public schools and in orphanages, all children who otherwise would not have access to musical education.

IZAAS Orphans and Handicapped Children Donate Now! With your contribution we will be able to provide food and education to poor orphans and handicapped children in Tanzania. IZAAS Newsletter 786/01

Because Hunger is Everyone’s Business

"The fact that more than one in every ten Americans is impacted by food insecurity makes us quite unique among wealthy democracies in the world. The U.S. is not the only nation where people go hungry but it is the only wealthy industrial nation where such a high percentage of its population suffers from nutritional deprivation due to inadequate incomes. Nearly one in five children, in our nation, lives below the poverty level. We have more than enough food to end this problem. The real issue is not whether America can end hunger, the question is whether we have the leadership to do so." Dr. J. Larry Brown (Excerpt from Hunger in America: The Growing Epidemic, Physician Task Force on Hunger in America)

Faces of Hunger in America (1)

A Nationwide Initiative to Visually Portray Hunger in the United States

Palms for Life Fund is calling out to young filmmakers, under 25 years of age, to participate in a competition to visually depict in their communities the growing epidemic of hunger in the United States. This national contest for documentary short films intends to bring the issue of hunger onto the forefront of the nation’s radar screen while at the same time empowering our youth, the future generation of leaders and activists, to facilitate positive change and challenge antiquated principles.

Palms for Life will offer cash prizes of up to $10K, and give the winners exposure to a vast audience in a full-length compilation of the prize-winning works.

If you are interested in participating in this contest, please visit the official competition website by clicking here.

 

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(1) In 2007, 36.2 million people lived in households considered to be food insecure. Of these 23.8 million are adults (10.6 percent of all adults) and 12.4 million are children (16.9 percent of all children).

The International Food Security Treaty (IFST)

Palms for Life has joined in partnership with the International Food Security Treaty Association (IFSTA) to further our common goals in the eradication of hunger as a strategic pillar for ending poverty.