The situation in Haiti’s poorest slums, where people can’t even afford a single meal a day, is so bad that some of them have taken to eating dirt.
Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
It’s really sad to read about babies and young children having to survive on such things.
So the next time you decide that the $2 cheeseburger is too much for you to finish, think about the kids in Haiti.
[link: The Associated Press]
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