On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti,   ISBN:9780977333899

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This book is sensitively written, honest, touching, and hopeful. I read it in two evenings as I didn't want to put it down. Exceptional book. You won't regret getting it.
Melinda

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This brief easy read will move you, make you ask how you can help, and truly put a new perspective on those so called troubles we deal with every day. I have become a huge admirer of Margaret Trost without ever meeting her. Thank you Margaret!
Steve
P.S. if you buy this, & I hope you do, please pass it along to everyone you can (or recomend it so profits can help) because if I have learned anything about it's author, it is that it is about getting the word out & helping children, not how many books she can sell.

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"On that Day Everybody Ate
One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti"
by Margaret Trost

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Wow!!! A must read for anyone who cares about other people in a compassionate way. Early on in her narrative Margaret tells of this incident of a little 3 year old girl sitting in front of her in the pew, "She kept turning around in the pew to give me a shy look. `Blan', she whispered to her mother, which means "white" or "foreigner" in Creole. And that I was , a midwestern, 37 year old mom with dark blonde hair, blue eyes, and white winter skin. I did stand out."

Margaret Trost, widowed in her thirties with a baby, Emmy Award Winner, PBS, Chicago, goes on a trip to Haiti and there in the midst of her own pain finds the beginning of a new life, by reaching out in a meaningful way to the desperate of the desperate of the world. For many of us who have been to Haiti, we come back moved, even shaken by the experience. We have been touched in such a way that we give more on Relief Sundays. But to Margaret it changed her life, and the lives of those she has come to know and love in Haiti. A superb story teller, the book is a first person narrative. Margaret relates how by partnering with a Catholic priest, and the founding of the "What If Foundation", thousands of hungry, starving children have been given a chance for life.

Margaret has never ceased to stand out. "On that Day Everybody Ate" is a one of a kind book. You won't be able to put it down.

Rev. Robert P. Seater
United Church of Christ Pastor

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I've read this book twice now and feel more compelled than ever to support the work of the What If? Foundation. To share what we have (although modest by American standards) and know that each $.70 donation means that a child can eat a healthy meal instead of a clay biscuit (yes - it's really dirt, shortening, and salt) feels so right. Whether you relate to this cause from a sense of religion, ethics, social justice, or a moral imperative doesn't matter as much as the fact that we have common ground here; it's the right thing to do.

Margaret Trost has written an amazing book. It's well-written, powerful, and not sappy. You won't want to put this book down once you start it. It will open your eyes to a huge, yet very solvable problem in a country (Haiti) that has suffered greatly because of natural disasters and crippling international policies.

Read the book. Share it with everyone who cares about other humans. Choose it for your book group. Get kids involved (they really understand more than we think and feel empathy for other kids who are starving). Then take action. Organize a bake sale, community garage sale, walk/run, or other event and send the money to the What If? Foundation. Give up eating out at a restaurant once a month and send the money (or whatever is right for you and your circumstances). But I encourage you to make a personal commitment to this cause that you'll never regret.

This is such an inspiring book. I think that everyone who reads it gains an understanding that small, collective efforts on our part can change the world in lasting and very profound ways.

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This book tells the true story of one woman who links up with a charismatic priest in Port au Prince to provide tens of thousands of meals to some of the hungriest people in this hemisphere. If you want to know the truth of what it means to live lives of hope despite incredible odds, read this book. Tears of sorrow will mix with tears of joy. You will be moved.