A Cry for Help From Haiti

Forwarded to me by djehutidjesi Please consider helping if you can. Mambo Racine Sans Bout is a friend of many within our Temple. If you can help, please consider it - even if it is just five or ten dollars.

Dear Reader, dear Vodouisants, it is my privilege to lead the Roots
Without End Society. That means that it is also my responsibility to
care for the needs of Roots Without End Society members and
Vodouisants of our community.

Most of my international members have jobs, and health insurance.
Most of my Haitian members do not. This is why I more often ask for
assistance for my Haitian members, who even under "normal" conditions
do not usually get enough to eat.

Right now, because of the recent political changes in Haiti, food
prices are sky-high. Scarcity, panic buying, and rising gasoline
prices have combined to make food prices shoot up like rockets. I
can't stress enough how outrageously expensive even basic foodstuffs
have become. Compared to the daily wage for an adult man, it's just
incredible - the average daily wage for an agricultural worker is
equal to the price of one raw chicken leg. That's right, a man works
hard all day, and the money he earns can buy one chicken leg. Or it
can buy twenty oranges, or about three cups of rice. It can NOT buy
enough food to feed the man himself, not to mention his wife and
children.
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