Bon Sel Dayiti

We are so please to announce that the ElderCare program will be partnering with a Notre Dame program called Bon Sel Dayiti, which means Good Salt in Haiti.  In America, our salt comes iodized which prevents mental retardation and growth deficiencies.  In Haiti now, only 11% of households use iodized salt.  This program has also researched and developed a way to add diethylcarbamazine to the salt which will prevent Lymphatic filariasis, or elephantitis, a common disease in Haiti in which the legs or other extremities become swollen and incapacitating.

While we are there in January, we will be purchasing the salt for some of the elders to resell at the Titanyen market.  They will keep any profits they make as a way to provide income for themselves and gain dignity and worth in their community.

For more information on the salt or the program please visit:
http://thomassique.blogspot.com/2009/08/bon-sel-dayiti_15.html#!/2009/08/bon-sel-dayiti_15.html