The mountain road was nearly washed out in some places, and we were worried that the dark clouds overhead might make the river we had to drive across to get back home impassable, but we did get to Joli Trou to pass out the supplemental food at the clinic the week after I arrived back in Haiti. My luck was to package the corn meal for distribution and I was powdered from head to toe with it before I was finished. With little preparation, Merlene Innocent was able to give a nutrition lesson to the women who came for their food. Those big 100 lb. bags of cornmeal are very unwieldy, but Edrick Etienne was able to manhandle them. Hanania was covered in oil and Nadia was well salted.

This food is not enough to last for the month. However, the vegetables the gardening teacher is helping them to grow is stretching food they have for their families. We have been cosponsoring this food distribution program this past year.