Meds & Food for Kids travels to Haiti year-round, for three weeks at a time. While in Haiti we stay at the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap Haitien, a good, safe and hygienic hotel with safe food and water, air conditioning, and electricity.
We travel in four-wheel drive vehicles to the clinic every morning and return before dark. To say the roads are "bumpy" is an understatement! We enjoy delicious breakfasts and suppers at the hotel and pack our own sandwiches, cookies, and iced tea for lunch at the clinic. The clinics have no electricity but have limited solar power that can run a few fans.
Plumpy'nut, more commonly known as Plumpy, is a peanut-based food for use in famine relief which was formulated in 1999 by André Briend, a French scientist.
It is a high protein and high energy peanut-based paste in a foil wrapper that can be distributed to children at home rather than in specialist feeding stations and can be eaten without any preparation. It tastes like a slightly sweeter kind of peanut butter. It is categorized by the WHO as a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).