In the past three weeks, Vodou Aid (http://vodouaid.org
) has sent
over $1500 to Haiti, to buy rice and other staple foods for the
members of the Roots Without End Society and for the community in our
area of Jacmel.
I've been keeping track of prices and currency values and so on. Last
week rice was $230H for one of those "demi-sacks", and there were 7.5
Haitian "dollars" to one US dollar. Then Preval did his rice subsidy
thing, and immediately the price of rice ROSE by ten dollars a sack,
meanwhile the gourde dropped to 7.3 Haitian "dollars to one US dollar.
The price of rice went up in part because the middlemen were afraid
they would be forced to sell at a low price. Now it's still $240 a
sack after the "subsidy". What's the point?
My people in Jacmel told me, "The people rose, the price of rice
descended. But it's still way too high, and we have no money. We
can't eat dry rice anyhow. Pretty soon people are going to rise
again."
Vodou Aid can't change the price of rice. What we do is to provide
nutritional and medical sup****t for majority class Haitians. We feed
our members of course, all forty of them, men women and children, and
we feed our community, members of the Roots Without End Society or
NOT, Vodouisant or NOT.
Help us keep on feeding people, I beg you bowing very low before you.
Even twenty dollars, while it only means a little less butter and
cheese to me and you, means a meal for a husband, whife and children
that includes protein rich foods such as meat, as well as staples like
rice.
Please help!
http://vodouaid.org
Thanking you with all my heart,
Mambo Racine Sans Bout
The VODOU Page - http://members.aol.com/racine125/index.html
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