Friday, August 7, 2015

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These Poor People in Haiti Eating Mud Cookies to Survive is So Heartbreaking!

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You're lucky if you can still eat 3 times in a day, or let's just say, you're very lucky if you can even eat a single meal in a day!

Poor people in Haiti shows the world what they do just to survive their daily lives. This is so heartbreaking that you'll realize what your parents had been telling you about when you don't finish your food - somewhere in the world, a child less fortunate than you lies dying from hunger.

The estimated volume of edible food wastage is at 1.3 billion tons, with annual direct economic loss amounting to 750 million US dollars, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Think about how huge this amount of wasted food is. It can even feed these poor people in Haiti for a few years.

Due to their country's struggling economic situation and where majority of them survives on a less than $2 daily budget, poor Haiti people resorted to making cookies out of mud just to live and satisfy their aching stomachs. 

Haitian women buy the dirt from local markets.
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Process them into cookies by mixing salt, vegetable oil and dirt.
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Formed cookies from dirt is laid out in the sun to dry.
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Poor kids from Haiti gets malnourished due to improper food intake.
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