Global Poverty and Mud Cookies
What kind of world do we live in where people are reduced to eating dirt in order to sustain themselves and their families? Recent media coverage has highlighted the fact that some Haitians (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere) have to rely on eating and selling ‘cookies’ made out of mud in order to feed their families. This really highlights the seriousness of poverty as a global issue and how the politics of poverty destroys hope for so many.
