1299 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Oakland Park, FL 33334 954.484.4488


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Love Thy Neighbor Fund Inc.
1299 E. Oakland Park Blvd.
Oakland Park, Florida 33334
Phone: 954.484.4488
Fax: 954.568.5075

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Love Thy Neighbor Fund - Programs

Culinary Training Program | Feeding Program | Kids For Kids

Culinary Skills Training Program

"Give a man a fish and he will have a meal for a night. Teach a man to fish and he will have food forever." Such is the premise of Love Thy Neighbor's nine-week Culinary Skills Training Program. We enlist temporarily-housed homeless individuals, train them in every aspect of cooking and sanitation, and provide them with a career with no limits. At course end, the trainees can continue without cost to McFatter Technical Center for advanced culinary studies, or we can help them secure good jobs in Florida's burgeoning restaurant industry, where in Broward County are over 45,000 jobs available.

Read our Culinary Skills Training Program Success Stories.

LTN Culinary Training - in the classroom, in the kitchen and with their creations.
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Feeding Program

Love Thy Neighbor's most visible activity in the community is the Feeding Program. We feed on Wednesday evenings on the beach and on Sunday mornings at Who's On First Restaurant (whose management has so graciously allowed us to use their facility) in downtown Fort Lauderdale near Broward Blvd. and Andrews Ave. LTN also provides food to other programs for daily feeding. All our meals are freshly cooked, and oftentimes, a Love Thy Neighbor-provided dinner is the only hot, nutritionally balanced meal a homeless person has all week.

Our friends enjoying a delicious, hot meal at the LTN weekly Sunday feeding.
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Kids 4 Kids

Love Thy Neighbor is always cognizant that well cared-for children are the key to a better society in the future. We have sponsored children with AIDS and one needing a new prosthesis (annually) for 12 years. Community-wise, we partner with the Lee Family YMCA each year to provide a gala Christmas party for 300-400 underprivileged children. This party is the talk of the town! Every child receives a Polaroid photo of him or herself on Santa's lap and many gifts. Pizza, snow cones and cotton candy abound. A bounce house, clowns, elves, a magician, puppet show and face painters cater to the childrens every desire..

LTN's Annual "Kids 4 Kids Christmas Event" was fun for all who attended!
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