Haitian Pizza Parlour Feeds Starving Survivors

Since the massive earthquake on 12 January 2010 laid the Haitian capital, Port-Au-Prince, to waste, an upmarket pizzeria has been feeding the survivors.

In the smart suburb of Petionville, the Muncheez pizza restaurant’s kitchen staff, homeless themselves, now cook up1000 meals a day to feed the starving people free of charge.

As the lines of hungry grew, neighbours donated food and thousands of dollars flowed in from friends and family in the US. The US Agency for International Development gave Muncheez a truckload of rice, beans, corn meal and cooking oil.

The restaurant’s co-owner, Gilbert Bailly distributed 10,000 blue bracelets he’d been saving for carnival parties. “One bracelet, one meal. It’s random, but I know somebody ate. That’s the most important thing to me,” he said.

Source: The Weekend Australian Jan 30-31, 2010