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So far, we have built 24 houses, a school and a farm; however, we still need funds to build a medical clinic and water wells so the village can be self-sustainable. Please help us reach these goals and continue to improve the lives of others with your charitable giving…

Food for the poor is the largest international relief and development organization in the United States. Established in 1982 as a 501(c)(3) corporation, our goals are to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of the men, women, and children we serve. They have maintained fundraising and administrative costs of less than 4% of its expenses; more than 96% of all donations go directly to programs that help the poor.

Please join Food For the Poor, community leaders,  family and friends in our fight against poverty. All funds will go directly to help build Yeshai’s Village of Peace. The project’s mission is to provide housing, clean water, livestock, a school, community center, and a medical clinic to an underprivileged region in rural Nicaragua.

Tournament Info:

• $300 team registration fee OR $35 single player registration fee

• Play format will be 6 v 6, and a minimum of 6 players to play

• 3 games guaranteed

• Play will start Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 10 a.m. Rain or shine event

• All players must sign waiver before playing

• Players must be over the age of 18

• Event will include DJ, raffles, prize giveaways, and media coverage

• No refunds due to team forfeit, withdrawal or inclement weather

Registration Info:

Availability will be on a first come, first served basis. Teams wishing to pay cash/credit the day of  should RSVP no later than October 20 to: nadavfields AT gmail DOT com (applies to teams only not single player registration)

For registration and to guarantee a spot in the tournament team captains must complete the steps below. The registration fee is $300.

Players that wish to participate and do not meet the requirements to assemble a team ($300/6 player minimum), may pay a $35 individual registration fee. Players will be assigned to teams of 8-10 people based on personal preference, skill level, and demand. Registration steps 3 (gift amount) & 4 (recognition name) should be changed to: $35 and full name, respectively.

Registration deadline is October 20

1. Go to www.foodforthepoor.org/yeshai

2. Click on Make a Donation on the right side of page

3. Enter Gift amount of $300

4. Recognition Name should reflect team name wishing to compete

5. Complete Billing & Payment Information

6. Click Donate button (confirmation email with tax receipt/exemption will be sent upon submission)

7. Complete registration form below

Registration Form:

Team Name:*

Team Captain:*

Mailing Address: (Street, City, State & Zip)*

Email:*

Phone:*

 

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*Once payment and registration form are received, team captains will receive confirmation along with additional tournament information.  Further inquiries for sponsorship (financial contributions, products, and in-kind services) should be sent to: coco.cubillas AT soccerooftop DOT com or call (305) 967-3512

 Yeshai Fields Charity | 350 W 43 St 40d | New York, NY 10036 | 954-531-8150

Food for the poor is the largest international relief and development organization in the United States. Established in 1982 as a 501(c)(3) corporation, our goals are to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of the men, women, and children we serve. They have maintained fundraising and administrative costs of less than 4% of its expenses; more than 96% of all donations go directly to programs that help the poor.

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Legacy creates Village of Peace

June 20, 2012|By David A. Schwartz, Florida Jewish Journal

After Yeshai Fields of Coral Springs died suddenly last December at the age of 29, family and friends looked for a way to remember the son, brother and friend who had a profound impact on their life.

Through a contact at Food for the Poor Inc., the Christian, international relief and development agency based in Coconut Creek, they learned about an impoverished village of 300 people in San Agustin, Quezalguaque, Nicaragua.

That’s how “Yeshai’s Village of Peace,” a 24-home project that will contain water wells, livestock, agriculture, a community center, school and medical clinic, was born. It will be dedicated in the fall.

“I wanted to do something that is memorable, that would carry my son’s name and his spirit,” said Nava Fields. “I said, ‘Ok, we’ll build a house,’ because that was Yeshai’s dream.

“We started with one house. Within a weekend we had one house. So we said, ‘Ok, we’ll do five houses.’ In a week, we had five houses. We said, ‘OK, we’ll do a village.’ Everybody just came aboard.”

Nava Fields said people ask her why she didn’t do a project in Israel, where the family lived before immigrating to the United States in 1987 and settling in Coral Springs. “Israel is a very rich country” when compared to Nicaragua, she said. “I wanted something in my son’s name where it’s very, very needed. I wanted a place where they really, really don’t have resources so whatever we do goes a long way.”

“We always wanted to do something like Habitat for Humanity or helping underprivileged people out,” said Nadav Fields, 30, Yeshai’s identical twin. The two traveled throughout the world, visiting 35 countries, including Central and South America, Southeast Asia and India. “We saw what poverty was really like,” Nadav said. “There were so many people to help.”

Friends have raised almost $70,000 for Yeshai’s Village of Peace in the six months since his death.

“My brother was loved by so many people,” Nadav said.

Angel Aloma, Food for the Poor executive director, said he went to a fundraiser for Yeshai’s Village of Peace. “Everyone I spoke to had a memory of something he had done for them,” Aloma said.

Yeshai forged “unbreakable bonds of friendship and camaraderie,” longtime friend Dr. Larry R. Jackson II, 31, of Durham, North Carolina said in the eulogy at Yeshai’s funeral. His charisma attracted many different types of people, Jackson said. “People did not simply want to be in his presence, they yearned to be among him.”

Yeshai was a “man of principle,” Jackson said. He believed that “life should be lived with the goal of helping people from all walks of life.”

A 2010 graduate of the University of Miami law school, Yeshai wanted to be a public defender so that he could help people, Jackson said.

Yeshai was “always caring for everybody, always willing to help anybody out,” said Joshua Levy, 31, of Fort Lauderdale, a friend since he and Yeshai were roommates at the University of Florida.

Close friend Dr. Dominick Sansone, 32, of Pompano Beach said Yeshai was very shy. “He never liked to talk in public,” Sansone said. But when he was around people, he opened up.

“People always felt comfortable around him. He was always positive. He always smiled,” Sansone said. And when he smiled, “It would bring joy to the people around him.”

To make a donation to Yeshai’s Village of Peace, visithttp://www.foodforthepoor.org/yeshai

Or send a check to:
Food for the Poor
6401 Lyons Road
Coconut Creek, Fl. 33073
* Write 83047 in the memo field so it’s credited to the Village

Photo/Kimberli DiMare 06/14/12 Yeshai Fileds (shown in picture frame, far left), a 2010 graduate of the University of Miami law school, died in December 2011 at the age of 29. The Fields Family, from left to right, twin brother Nadav, father Robert, mother Nava, and older brother Jonathan holding Benny the Jack Russell, are raising money through the Christian charity Food for the Poor to build a community in an impoverished village in Nicaragua. In six months, they have raised almost $70,000 in honor of Yeshai, a young man who lived to help others.

To read the article on Sun-Sentinel, click here.

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	This family lives in San Agustin, Nicaragua, and will benefit from the changes that Yeshai Fields’ family and friends are bringing to their village. Plans for the community include homes, water wells, livestock, crops and a community center with a medical clinic.
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COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (June 8, 2012) — Yeshai Fields was a young man of principle. His family and friends say he was a man who lived with the goal of helping people from all walks of life. So when they lost him in his late 20s, they turned to the international relief and development agency Food For The Poor to help create a memorial to him that would be a reminder of his magical smile and loving ways. This memorial was building a Village of Peace in Nicaragua.

That village in San Agustin, Quezalguaque, Nicaragua, currently is a community of 300 people who live in extreme poverty, battling daily against hunger, disease and the rodents that share the garbage-strewn landscape. It is this community that his family has chosen to transform with homes, water wells, livestock, crops and a community center with a medical clinic.

They are more than halfway to their goal of making it a reality through several fundraisers held by family and friends. The Yeshai Fields Village of Peace will be dedicated this fall.

“The memory of Yeshai Fields will live on. Yeshai always dreamed of providing for the underprivileged. May this tribute and our generosity be in honor of Yeshai’s relentless vision to help bring happiness to others,” his family wrote in an appeal to friends.

His mother, Nava Fields, said the most important thing in Yeshai’s life was to be generous, and that he was especially compassionate toward the homeless and tried to help them. “He did it because he felt it was the right thing to do, and he wanted to do more. He would always say,’I will make you proud of me,’ and this is one way that I can show him how very proud I was of him,” she said.

Born in Israel in 1982, Yeshai was the younger of twin boys, and was raised on a sheep farm until the age of 5, when his family immigrated to Coral Springs, Fla. When he died, he had graduated from University of Miami’s Law School and was looking for a position as a public defender, with the goal of helping people less fortunate than himself.

“We are so deeply grateful that Yeshai’s family reached out from their grief to create such a beautiful memorial to this amazing young man,” said Angel Aloma, Executive Director of Food For The Poor.  Speaking at a gathering of his friends and family, Aloma went on to say, “You’re beautiful because you came here tonight to really save lives. And that was important to Yeshai, and I thank you for continuing his legacy. From his passing will come new life.”

There will be 24 two-room homes in the village, providing safety and dignity to people who have known only the fragile shelter of plastic, some sticks and, perhaps, some tin. The mission of the group is to develop a self-sustaining village that will be able to take care of its own needs, and provide a life-transforming environment that will reflect Yeshai’s spirit of love and camaraderie.

“We always wanted to help people, and we traveled for a couple of years in developing countries where we got insight into what poverty really is,” said Nadav Fields, Yeshai’s twin brother. “We would take our shirts off our back, and give them whatever we had. This project fits everything my brother and I worked to do, and it is exactly how he would want us to remember him.”

Those interested in helping bring this dream to fruition can visit FoodForThePoor.org/yeshai to make a donation to the project. Checks also can be mailed to Food For The Poor, 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, Fla., 33073, using the source code 83407 in the memo field.

Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of the hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.

For more information, please visit www.FoodForThePoor.org.

Contact:
Kathy Skipper
Director of Public Relations
954-427-2222 x 6614
kathys@foodforthepoor.org

See the full article at: http://www.foodforthepoor.org/newsroom/news/yeshai-fields-06-08-12.html

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