Have you ever had mud cookies? Would you eat mud cookies if you were hungry enough? Do you know what mud cookies are made of?
Here is the United States, as children, many of you may have made mud cookies from what we call dirt and water when playing house but there wasn’t any plan to really eat them, it was only make believe.
But in Haiti many parents make mud cookies for their children to survive on because they don’t have any other food for them to eat. Because of the poverty in that country, and the lack of nutritional food, children may miss several meals. Mud cookies in Haiti are made of dirt that is collected from the nation’s central plateau, near the town of Hinche, and trucked over to the markets where women purchase it. It is processed into cookies in shanty towns such as Fort Dimanche and others.
Mud Cookies
First, the dirt is strained to remove rocks and clumps. The dirt is mixed with salt and vegetable shortening or fat. From a small ball of clay and with a large spoon the clay is formed into flat discs. and baked in the sun on the house roof or street.
The cost of a cookie is about a penny per cookie with the normal wages are about two dollars a day.
Smiling children enjoying a meal at the orphanage.
The children who attend the school or live at the orphanage in Haiti are given meals each day. What a blessing it is for the children and students to receive the food that is grown in their school gardens or the donations that are provided to the school.
Culinary graduates ready to serve and make a difference.
One of the courses taught at the school is Culinary classes. The picture shows a group of students who graduated from the Culinary course and are ready to take up their work feeding the people and helping to improve their health.
What a blessing this school and orphanage is for those 700 students that can get an education and nutritional food. Let us help them to uniforms for their Adventurers and Pathfinders.
