HAITI AGAIN ON THE TOP OF THE NEWS.. HEATING MUD AND DIRT

1. Rising costs force Haiti's poor to resort to eating dirt Denver Post - Feb 01 1:03 PM
It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud.
2. Rising costs force Haiti's poor to resort to eating dirt Waxahachie Daily Light - Feb 01 9:42 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – 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.
3. Haiti's poor satisfy hunger with dirt cookies BG News - Jan 29 11:20 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - 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 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the ...
4. Rising Costs Force Haiti's Poor To Resort To Dirt As Food NBC 6 Miami - Jan 30 6:23 PM
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.
5. In Haiti, the poorest are eating dirt Chicago Sun-Times - Jan 30 2:03 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- 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.
6. Haiti's poorest reduced to eating dirt Daily Telegraph - Jan 28 5:18 PM
EXTREME poverty is forcing Haiti's poorest people to eat "cookies" made from dirt, salt and oil.
7.
Haiti's poor forced to eat dirt Daily Telegraph - Jan 28 5:18 PM
EXTREME poverty is forcing Haiti's poorest people to eat dirt.
8.
Haiti's poor feed on cookies baked with dirt Seattle Times - Jan 30 2:34 AM
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...
9.
Haiti's poor eating cookies made of dirt The Kansas City Star - Jan 29 8:20 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud.
10.
[World and Nation] Rising costs force Haiti's poor to resort to eating dirt The Minnesota Daily - Jan 29 11:44 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - 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 ...
.
As food prices go up, some Haitians forced to eat dirt Statesville Record & Landmark - Jan 31 12:07 AM
VIDEO Watch a slideshow on Haiti and the practice of eating dirt 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 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies ...
12.

Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt AP via Yahoo! News - Jan 29 4:43 PM
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 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
13.
Dirt cookies become diet staple in Haiti Detroit Free Press - Jan 30 12:16 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest people can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.
14.
Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt National Geographic - Jan 30 11:08 AM
Faced with skyrocketing food prices, Haiti's poor have turned to "mud cookies"—salt, vegetable oil, and dirt—to stave off their hunger.
15.
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Jan 30 7:58 AM
By JONATHAN M. KATZ 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 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's ...
16.
In Hungry Haiti, Dirt Is Food The Daily Comet - Jan 29 1:28 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 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.
17.
b0789 BC-Haiti-EatingDirt 01-30 0688 Hays Daily News - Jan 29 11:38 PM
Eds: Multimedia: A slideshow about Haiti and the practice of eating dirt will be available in the --international/haiti--eating--dirt folder. This item moved previously as an advance and is now available for use.

NON ASSISTANCE A NATION EN DANGER (8.000.000 ETRES HUMAINS EN VOIE DE DISPARITION!

Avec des sentiments mitigés et ambivalents je vous présente ce florilège d'images représentant une activité à la mode chez nous:Les fameuses et aberrantes galettes de boue.
L'hisotire ce cette adultération de l'alimentation remonte à quelques longs mois déjà.
A l'époque il s'agissait d'une attitude isolée, d'une conduite cachée pour faire face à la famine.
La recette est simple. De la terre, dans un premier temps l'argile était privilégié, un peu de sel, un peu d'eau probablement sale, du buerre.
Le mélange est disposé en petit tas et séché au soleil.

ne sont pas des tomettes, ce ne sont pas des pièces pour « adoquiner » des rues mais ce sont des galettes de boue que les haïtiens mangent plusieurs fois par jour.
Si les journaux en parlent, si des reportages de photos et des émissions de télévision s’y intéressent c’est que le phénomène a pris de l’ampleur et est devenue très habituel à Port-au-Prince

Ce qui est le plus poignant dans l'histoire c'est que justement aujourd'hui je lisais une dépêche sur le site web d'un des station de radio les plus écoutées de la capîtale haïtienne qui mentionnait une intervention de l'ambassadeur de France qui racontait avec une certaine satisfaction que le Président Preval s'était entretenu avec les bailleurs de fonds pour discuter de la réalisation des prochaines joutes électorales sénatoriales et municipales sans oublier les électiosn indirectes.

Est-ce vraiment sérieux que de vouloir dépenser des millons d'euros dans un pays ou les gens ne font plus la différence entre ce qui est comestible et ce qui ne l'est pas, acculés par une misère atroce et l'absence totale d'initiative officielle pour leur venir en aide?

La communauté internationale n'a-t-elle pas déjà cautionnée l'expérience d'élections passées avec comme résultat des humains qui mangent de la boue?

Pourquoi subventionner et financer des élections qui permettront à des énergumènes incapables incompétents qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs capacités de tuer, bruler et vociférer des slogans en faveur de pietres dirigeants?

Pourquoi financer des élections pour aligner des élus qui vous détourner les fonds alloués àla nation?

Dans des situations ou la conscience humanitaire demande une action énergique et forte, la communauté internationale se cache derrière des principes de non ingérence dans les affaires internes pour ne pas intervenir.

Cependant, entre les coulisses de la non ingérence et le statut de non assistance à nation en danger il y a une grande marge de manoeuvre que nous pointe le sens de notre responsabilité comme humain