June 09, 2009
Changing the world with yogurt
A pilot project in Mabatini hopes to empower women, stimulate the local economy, and provide nutritional food to HIV patients. All with yogurt.
From the journal Nature:
[Elizabeth] Gabeal and the nine other 'yogurt mamas' who work alongside her spend the day transforming local farmers' milk—delivered each morning by bicycle—into a probiotic yogurt. In addition to selling 200 servings a day to community residents for a profit, they also give free cups away to 125 people with HIV/AIDS in the hopes that the yogurt might make them healthier.
EXTRA: Research shows that when young people read the labels on alcohol, they do so to "help them choose the strongest drinks for the lowest cost."