“You cannot tell a hungry child that you fed him yesterday.”
Zimbabwean Proverb
Finding food other than in the supermarket has become essential for many families in rural Honduras. With most businesses still shut down because of Covid-19, many are still without a paycheck. Growing personal vegetable gardens has still not caught on, and there have been discussions about the reasons for that in the past. One such discussion can be found here on La Gringa’s Blogicito. But that is a topic for another day.
Parents say it is so painful to tell their kids there is no food. For now, many people have decided to go fishing. Some are going to the river in the mountain and spear fishing. But since it is prohibited to go to the river because of the coronavirus lockdown, they have to go after dark. Others have found success in the lagoons along the coast and in the ocean just off the beach using nets.
The catch ranges from tilapia to snapper to shark and more. Whatever it is, a hungry family never complains.
Rural Honduras 