Liberian snails

I actually had a letter published in The Times newspaper last Friday (12 December). A few days earlier an item had appeared in Young Times saying that, amongst other charitable gifts one can give to families in the developing world this Christmas, for £8 you could give 100 snails for a Liberian family to breed, eat and sell. The journalist described snails as " as slimy little things" so I wrote to the editor saying that Liberian snails are at least 4 inches long and boiled up with rice they make a very nourishing meal for a Liberian family. I attached a photo which Jenny took in November of snails being sold from a wheelbarrow in a Liberian market and The Times published both letter and photo. We hope that more people buy snails for Liberia as a result. If you would like to give £8's worth of snails to a Liberian family, log on to the charity Samaritan's Purse.