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Yellow Bag Thoughts--Haiti

The cover of the Feb 8 New Yorker magazine I am reading on a flight from Albuquerque to Tampa, pictures pampered dogs in city outerwear, all leashed, standing unhappily in the snow. Inside the mag, a reporter writes that in Haiti early food aid provided by the Dominican Republic consisted of rations to feed a family for a day---” rice, cornmeal, beans, sardines and Vienna sausages.” The food was contained in yellow plastic bags, most likely similar to those stuffed in pockets by city-dwellers out walking their pets, at the ready to capture the canine droppings none of us likes to step in on sidewalks cleared of snow.

"You Don't Need an Army. Just Give Them Food."

From the Washington Post, Scott Wilson and William Booth:   

"At a commercial park of factories where workers make T-shirts and underwear for clients such as Gap, the owners were feeding workers and counting heads to see if they could reopen Monday. The free hot food was some of the only available in Haiti, served by the mobile kitchens brought in by the Dominican Republic government.

"It is not that complicated. They need help. A couple of soldier with guns protect us," said Maria Isauna Jimenez, a manager of seven mobile kitchens capable of producing 35,000 meals a day. "You don't need an army. Just give them food." "