![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than eating the clay, artisans are able to use the clay to create beautiful products that help them earn a living wage. According to news, the small island-nation of Haiti is still eating mud cookies to survive, even five years after the earthquake. Rising prices and food shortages threaten the nation's fragile stability, and the mud. Vineworks has partnered with the Apparent project through Papillon to sell Haitian made mugs which are hand-crafted out of the same clay that the cookies are made out of. Yolen Jeunky, 45, collects dried mud cookies to sell in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince on Nov. The truly miraculous part of this story is how we can make a difference in this cycle of hunger. Aside from the risk of soil-transmitted helminths or bacteria, adults and children relying on clay cookies are prone to malnutrition. The solution for many Haitians? The Bon Bon Tè - known to many as a "mud cookie." Mud and clay cookies provide no nutrition for those who eat them but temporarily satisfies the hunger pains experienced by those with no other option for food or money to buy it. Recently, the country has been rocked by the earthquake in 2010 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 along with many other disasters which have continued to make food production very difficult and the price of nourishment out of reach for many that live on $2 a day. In Haiti 1 out of 10 children will die before the age of five with one of the leading causes being malnutrition. The Haitian Clay Cookie The Haitian Clay Cookie ![]()
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