Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Rising Costs Force Haiti's Poor to Resort to Dirt as Food
It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a one-month-old son, relies on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt
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