A Community In Need

Today we went to a community to do door-to-door Bible and food distribution followed by helping out at a local Soup Kitchen. The community is largely made up of garbage haulers. Not the people that work for BFI or Waste Management, these are guys that own a horse, a carriage and ride around town picking up garbage in communities where the garbage trucks won't go.

The needs and problems in this community are incredible. First, there is garbage everywhere, all over the streets, broken tile, glass, animal manure, food waste, etc. The smell walking down the street is like that of a garbage can that is a week overdue to be taken out. In 2 years on the mission field, I have never seen anything quite like it. I've been in slum villages in Thailand with open sewage and poor areas in Southern Mexico, but I think the fact that there is so much garbage everywhere, it is almost overwhelming. Please click on the album below and remember, the pictures are only a poor representation of the visual image, the sense of smell is not engaged in a picture and the magnitude of the amount of garbage is difficult to capture. But the children looked happy after dinner was served!

A Community in Need