Rice and beans with sauce

Serves 1 child

Cost: about 50p

120g white rice, cleaned and washed

10g beans, cleaned and rinsed

25ml cooking oil

...#8531; bouillon cube

clove of garlic, crushed

chive leaf, chopped

¼ of a squash

4 small cubes of aubergine, peeled

small handful of cabbage, chopped

a couple of cubes of carrot, peeled

a sprig of watercress

1 tsp tomato paste

1 slice of orange, with peel on, and its juice

25g of goat meat and bones

1 slice red chilli pepper

¼ of a lime

Boil the beans until soft and retain the water. Heat some oil and add the beans, half the garlic, chives and half the bouillon. Cook for one minute. Add the rice, starchy bean water and boil until cooked. Remove the tendons and sinew from goat meat. Rub the meat with orange peel (to get rid of the smell of over-the-hill meat) then with the lime and keep what is left. Salt the meat. Mix the rest of the garlic and chilli with the rest of the bouillon. Boil a pan of water and add a little salt and the lime. Rinse meat first under cold water and then with the hot lime water. Add orange juice and the garlic mix and rub them into meat. Put the squash and aubergine in a pot with a little oil. Add the meat and cook briefly before adding watercress, cabbage and carrots and water to cover. Cook until vegetables are soft. Remove the meat and carrots. Mash the vegetables and then return the meat and carrots to the pot. Add oil and tomato paste and cook everything for 10 minutes. Serve the meat and vegetable mixture with the rice and beans.

Memene Dominique, 28, cooks this one midday meal for her three daughters and extended family: 14 people in total. They all live in a small house at the base of a rubbish-strewn ravine in Port-au-Prince. No-one has a steady job and they pool resources to eat

The problem,' Dominique says, 'is that at 4pm or 5pm the children are hungry again and there is nothing left to give them. If I had more money, I could go to the store and buy some spaghetti, rice, beans, corn - I would make another meal. My kids are hungry at night, but we don't have anything else.'

She thinks Remilda, seven, is malnourished because she is ill so often, and she attributes this to a lack of vitamins.