Today we went to the area near what used to be the city dump. They closed down this dump just this month, that means that the people who live here that are already in extreme poverty no longer have a way to find items to use for their homes, items to sell and for some scraps to eat. The new dump is 11 kilometers away and they have no way to get there. Pastor Felix runs a church just on the edge of this settlement and with the help of places like El Ayudante provides food bags for the most needy of the families. We also took medications, parasite pills and vitamins with us to try to help the families we talked to. There are about 150 families in this one area that live in this extreme poverty, we only gave food bags to 25 families. Thankfully there are more teams going next weeks that will provide another set of food bags. These food bags contain beans, rice, cooking oil, coffee, matches and sugar - enough to eat for about a week for one family. Pastor Felix keeps in close touch with this community and helps those in the greatest need although for us they all seem to have great needs. We should never again take for granted the fact that we have or can obtain food, shelter and clothing in the United States.
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