The gift of GIVING

I saw this on Trisha's blog, and I thought that it was a great thing to post! Thanks, Trisha, for leading me to this!

Mayan Families have a website where you can give the gift of FOOD to a needy Guatemalan family for Christmas: A CHRISTMAS TAMALE FOOD BASKET.


Taken from their website:

A tamale is a traditional indigenous food consisting of steam-cooked corn meal dough with or without a filling. Tamales can be filled with meats and sliced chillies or any preparation according to taste. The tamale is generally wrapped in a corn husk or plantain leaves before cooking, and during Christmas holidays, tamales of rice flour are a special treat for Guatemalans. The preparation time of this type of tamale is long, due to the amount of time required to cook down and thicken the rice flour base.

One food basket costs US $30 and will provide a Christmas Tamale celebration meal for a hungry and needy family of 12 or more.

The food for the Christmas basket will include:
A bottle of oil and 15 lbs of rice to make the tamales and a loaf of bread with which they eat the tamales at midnight
5lbs of meat
1lb of coffee
a block of drinking chocolate (a traditional drink taken at midnight)
raisins for the tamales, grapes, tomatoes, apples and sugar
leaves to wrap the tamales, cloves, pepper, sesame and pumpkin seeds. These are the requirements to make the midnight Christmas meal of Tamale.

I know this time of year we are asked to give to various charities. Giving is a great part of the Christmas season, so if you have not yet selected your charity, please consider clicking
HERE to make your donation to Mayan Families.

I know the story of Mario's birth mother, and think that this could really help a family like hers.

Thank you for considering the donation.