One Day in Haiti, Part IV
But now it’s lunchtime, and the young kids get fed first, helped by the older kids:
The chef prepares today’s meal, the same meal as yesterday and the same meal as tomorrow. They eat just once a day:
The meal: rice, coarse pasta, a few onions…and a big blob of mayonnaise 3 times a week. They eat little if any protein and the mayo gives them ~some~ fat. It’s no wondering these kids…and the adults…are malnourished.
I was quietly pissed Haitian customs was holding up hundreds of pounds of canned meat destined for these kids.
But they seemed to enjoy it.
I wandered around some more and found what I was later told were the “classrooms”.
I heard some muffled sounds in one and investigated.
That’s water from the cooked pasta they’re eating. It looked like dishwater. They thought it was dessert.
