Here is a really sad news story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/haiti_eating_dirt
An excerpt:
"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti’s worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau.
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The mud has long been prized by pregnant women…"
Here is one way you can help:
http://www.foodforthepoor.org/site/c.kgLMIUOEKrF/b.3524831/k.B6D7/Gifts_that_Nourish.htm