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Focus and History

March 20th, 2011 by editor

Focus and History

Starve Poverty International (SPI) is a 501(c)(3) (i.e., non-profit) that seeks to bring humanitarian aid, primarily in the form of building projects, to those who would invite the organization to provide new and/or improved housing facilities especially where such facilities are scarce or non-existent. We are an international organization. That is our primary focus; however, we have partnered with, for example, Habitat for Humanity, to provide housing for those in the area in which we are based: Ocean County, New Jersey (for a list of other organizations with whom we have worked, please see our Partners page).

Geographically and historically, our focus has been a relatively impoverished region of the Bahamas the islands of Exuma. Known to the Bahamians as a collection of out islands, Exuma is not uncharted, as Robinson Crusoe once might have said. It is home to the grandparents of NBC’s Al Roker, and home to the Bahamian National Family Island Regatta and the National Land and Sea Park. We have concentrated our efforts on the nation of The Bahamas and intend to one day see building projects completed in the nearby Caribbean islands of Haiti and Jamaica.

SPI is headquartered in Lacey Township, New Jersey on the northern edge of the Pinelands National Reserve. Lacey is also home to Ron Fraser, Executive Director of Starve Poverty International. How this ordinary man from the New Jersey Pinelands founded an international aid organization and now works with the governmental officials of a Caribbean nation is an extraordinary story of faith and courage.