Food Travels

This past spring, I went to Haiti on a medical missions trip. While I was there, I learned a lot about the haitian culture, what it means to live in a third world country, and how important health is to the survival of a society. Haiti’s identity is even a little blurry. Their traditions and even language are a combination of French (from colonization) and their African tribal culture.

We taught a lot about water sanitation and thus talked a lot about cooking. This is a woman standing outside her house (where all cooking is performed) making a traditional haitian meal of beans, rice, and a spicy chicken broth/soup. This is literally what they eat almost every meal and is their “staple”.

If you can’t tell, she is also cooking with charcoal, being their only source of heat. I could learn a lot about dutch oven cooking from these folks!

If you are interested in helping the children in Haiti, go here. This is an American organizations that feeds, educates, provides health care, employs, and gives a future to underserved children around the world. They have locations in Haiti and Honduras and operate out of Ohio.

You can sponsor children to make sure they have a meal every school day and have a school to go to. You have actual contact with the sponsored child and can send gifts. When the child receives the gifts, they even take a picture of the child with the gift for you. These children rely on their American sponsors for lots of things, and yet it is so inexpensive to help them.

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