The "Not Just Posho" song

Here in Karamoja a staple of the diet it posho. This is ground corn flour and water.  The word staple seems to be putting it too gently. Breakfast is corn meal and water that is still a little runny and they call it porridge. Lunch/dinner is cornmeal and water that is so stiff it stands up by itself.  

This picture is posho but it is a little misleading. They don’t use any silverware to eat it, just their hands and rarely do they eat it with anything. That is the problem. They eat just posho.  And it makes them feel full. But that is about all it does. There is practically no nutritional value and surprisingly few calories in a large serving of posho. So one of the things that Leah teaches about is the value of adding other things to their diet. Like eggs, vegetables, beans, or meat. We recognize that these things are “expensive” or hard to get in the dry season but too many of their kids have malnutrition and if they can add just one or two of these things once a week it would make a big difference. So she wrote a song. Practically no one here is literate but songs are a good way to remember things and this group seemed to enjoy learning it and sang it about seven times. It seems like a good start….