Working for Peanuts.

One of my titles at Chidamoyo Hospital- bookkeeper. I am recording all of their written records (income and expenses) from the last 2 yrs on a computer. Excel workshops are coming in handy right about now. It is a bit of a challenge, seeing as they switched from Zim dollars and South African dollars last year, to US dollars or as they say "Obama dollars". Another hang up is that they accept a plethora of things as payment. They won't turn people away for not having money (which most people don't) so they accept whatever that person can pay in. Can you tell me how to convert 50kgs of beans to Obama dollars? How about 50,000 farm bricks? Peanuts are also a main source of payment, to which the hospital started saying "we work for peanuts". Last year they needed fertilizer for their gardens (the hospital grows a lot of their own food) so if someone was unable to pay they'd have them go pick up cow manure and bring it over. So as they like to say, they went from "working for peanuts" to "working for sh*t".....