Doramise Moreau toils long past midnight in her tiny kitchen every Friday—boiling lemon peels, crushing fragrant garlic and onion into a spice blend she rubs onto chicken and turkey, cooking the dried beans that accompany the yellow rice she’ll deliver to a Miami church. She’s single-handedly cooked 1,000 meals a week since the pandemic’s start—an act of love she’s content to perform with little compensation. Moreau, a 60-year-old widow who lives with her children, nephew, and three grandchildren, cooks in the kitchen of a home built by Habitat for Humanity in 2017. Her days are arduous. She works part-time as a janitor at a technical school, walking or taking the bus. But the work of her heart, the reason she rises each morning, is feeding the hungry. As a little girl in Haiti, she often pilfered food from her parents’ pantry—some dried rice and beans, maybe an onion, or an …
Haitian Janitor Cooks 1,000 Meals per Week for Her Miami Church to Feed the Hungry
March 20, 2021
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