67 percent of the Haitian population goes without food some days

Dinner on the Table - Thomassique Haiti

Believe me, I really hate seeing pictures of half naked black kids with yellow hair and big round bellies. I hate it more when they are images of children in the country I love.

But... Hell... I am not in a position to do anything about it...

Read the article: 2 out of 3 People Face Hunger as Haiti Woes Mount

I don't understand this... The land is still there... the same land that was once the richest colony in the Caribbean... Now Haiti is importing 80 percent of its food?

Read this... "Eighty percent of Haiti's rice -- and half of all its food -- is imported now," AP reports...

Read this... In 1997 some 1.2 million Haitians didn't have enough food to eat. A decade later the number had more than doubled. Today, that figure is 6.7 million, or a staggering 67 percent of the population that goes without food some days, can't afford a balanced diet or has limited access to food, according to surveys by the government's National Coordination of Food Security. As many as 1.5 million of those face malnutrition and other hunger-related problems.

You know something? Every time I try to add my two cents to this article, I end up deleting what I wrote... I don't like what I have to say...

So why don't you say something... Tell me what's on your mind reading this...

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