I had read with great interest the article The Free Press published by The Associated Press on Haitians eating mud pies, literally made from mud with a little shortening mixed in.

About six months ago Kids Against Hunger Mankato decided with a unanimous vote to adopt Haiti as a country. Seeing this recent article reminds me we have a ways to go before Haiti is well fed.

I have a plaque on my wall here at Kids, given to me by a Haitian, who when he found out we are trying to help feed his country, insisted that I take this with no charge. On the plaque it says “Pray for Haiti.” I wonder if that’s enough.

If their country is starving, the Haitians say over 500,000 children are not going to school because they do not have food to eat. Is prayer enough, or do we need to do something too? If we were able to feed at least those 500,000, and get them back into school, then we would need $41 million. Quite a task you may say. Is a life one of those things we should work really hard to save? Our founder, Richard Proudfit, as he approaches his latter days is very fond of saying, “Please, take off your blinders.”

I hope we could do it. Imagine The Associated Press article that The Free Press originally penned, something like, “Mankato feeds 500,000 Haitians for one year; Starvation silenced.”

Or maybe it could just read, “Mankato takes mud pie off the menu in Haiti.”