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BALANCED HIGH NUTRITION MEALS:
The team from Kids Against Hunger, Cargill,
Pillsbury, General Mills and Archer Daniels Midland successfully
developed a food mixture comprised of fortified soybean, essential
vitamins & minerals, vegetables, and rice.
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Our food packet can reverse the starvation process,
help restore health, and improve a child's mental and physical
alertness.
Multiple Servings Per Packet:
One packet provides a child with six one-cup servings.
Protein Rich: Each packet
contains six 11 gram servings of protein.
Vitamin and mineral fortified:
Each serving contains 21 essential vitamins & minerals for
a growing body.
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Global Acceptance: Rice,
a globally recognized staple, is used as the base.
Simple & Safe to Prepare:
Boil packet contents in water for twenty minutes.
Keeps Well: Unopened packet
has a shelf-life of three years.
Seen here the UCT Haiti coordinator delighted
to have been given a box of this excellent product.
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HAITI STATISTICS:
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Haiti |
U.S.A |
Average Annual Income
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$1,800 |
$43,500 |
Life Expectancy |
53 years |
78 years |
Poverty Rate |
80.0% |
13% |
Literacy Rate |
52.9% |
99% |
Infant Mortality Rate
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72 deaths/1,000
births |
6.3 deaths/1,000
births |
Malnourished
Children Under 5 |
greater than
33% |
less than 1%
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Consider that the top 1% of the world's
richest people earn as much as the poorest 57%. When we talk
about the world's richest 1%, we are not talking about millionaires
living is luxury. If you are reading this article, there is
a good chance that you belong to this 1% group.
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Information below sourced
from www.wfp.org
Every year, an estimated 38,000
children under the age of five die - almost one
out of three because of malnutrition.
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| Haiti is the poorest
country in the Western hemisphere, and one of the most disadvantaged
countries in the developing world. It ranks 153 out of 177 countries
on the UNDP Human Development Index (2004). 75% of Haitians
live on less than US$2 per day, while 55% live on less than
US$1 per day. |
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Chronic malnutrition is widespread among the most
vulnerable, with severe or moderate stunting affecting 42 percent
of children under five.
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While easily
preventable, maladies like malnutrition and diarrhea kill
28 percent and 20 percent of children aged 0–5, respectively.
Food supply covers only 55 percent of the population and daily
food insecurity affects 40 percent of Haitian homes. |
| Haiti ranks along with Afghanistan
and Somalia as one of the three countries of the world with
the worst daily caloric deficit per inhabitant (460 kcal/day).
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Some 2.4 million Haitians cannot
afford the minimum 2,240 daily calories recommended by the World
Health Organization. |
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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
Archbishop Dom Helder
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Permission requested to use information from www.wehaitians.com
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1 of 6 hungry people in the
slums of Haiti are giving new meaning to the phrase "dirt
poor." As food prices soar, many desperate people are
eating mud cookies to stave off their hunger pangs. In Haiti
children are able to shoe dirt-streaked tongues after eating
mud cookies. |
< Read more about
the mud cakes>
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