We’re Cooking Up a Way to Help Haiti

Albert Pit Barbecue held a special carryout night and gave 100% of the profits will to the United Nations World Food Program to help Haiti.

Within 24 hours of the earthquake, the WFP began providing ready-to-eat foods and high-energy biscuits to quake victims and is gearing up to feed 2 million people for the next six months. For four years, Albert Pit Barbecue has been supporting the WFPs Millennium Development Goal of halving world hunger by 2015. We’ve carefully researched our charitable choices and believe that this organization is worthy of our donation and yours.

There are two important links between Haiti and barbecue.

The first barbecues, in fact, were the invention of the Taino Indians of Haiti, who dried their meat on raised frames of sticks over the fire. Spanish explorers translated the Taino word as barbacoa, and in due course English settlers along the Atlantic coast had their own barbecues.

A second Haitian/barbecue link is that the WFP is distributing ready-to-eat foods and high-energy biscuits in Haiti. Biscuits! Biscuits taste great with barbecue (the high-energy kind given to the Haitians by the World Food Program or the slathered in butter kind of barbecue country). So by coming in and buying barbecue on Albert Pit Barbecue and our customers sent high-energy biscuits and other emergency food to the Haitian people. (OK, that link is a bit of a stretch but how else to tell you that the donation went to something real, not just charity overhead costs?)

We believe that there is enough food in the world to feed everyone.

Poverty, malnutrition, high food prices, hurricanes and now an earthquake…Haiti is a nation which was already struggling to feed itself even before the earthquake. If you’d like to make a donation to the United Nation’s World Food Program and learn more about their work, check out their website at World Food Program.