Blanket is a small village between a “rocky road in the mountains” and a “rocky riverbed.” There are no beautiful gardens in this area… there is no good soil to grow gardens. What little land people have has been handed down from generation to generation.

There are no jobs in this area and the only thing they have to make money with is the rocky riverbed. Here, women and children, and some men, sit all day long with a hammer, or “malto,” crushing larger rocks into small, tiny rocks, about an inch in diameter. If they can get a huge pile of “small rocks,” a truck will come by and pick this up every three months…

But, sometimes, the trucks pick up the rocks on “credit,” and don’t return to pay.

When this happens, many children resort to eating “dirt cookies.” Parents, especially mothers, work hard to feed their children even “one meal a day.”

When we heard about their plight, we loaded our truck with boxes of food, from Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and we took food to cook for the children. Mothers and children went away smiling, with a large box of food on their heads and then, the little children returned to “eat a hot meal.” You have made all this happen with your love and support!

God bless you again, for “considering and loving” the poor of Haiti!

Bobby and Sherry