Charcoal Production
Fueling the Fire: Charcoal Production in Haiti
Her distended belly and thin arms indicate a hard life for Mileny Valdez' five years and a harder one ahead. Her four-foot-tall, 17-year-old sister had to be carried off this rocky mountaintop to a nutrition center due to a lifetime of chronic malnutrition. It is this kind of rampant hunger that forces families to sacrifice the future of the environment so they may eat today. With a rural open border Haiti's charcoal production woes spread easily into the Dominican Republic.
