This is a blog I wrote in Honduras and forgot to post. I hope you enjoy.
The smell will hit you before you even get there. Trash flying through the air. People clamoring over a truck entering. Pregnant women and children, who should be in school, dirty and digging in trash. It is their only means of income. Working all day in deplorable conditions to make the equivalent of $7 to $8 a day! Just enough money to get home, eat, and get to work again the next day. This is the life of a person who works at the Tegucigalpa city dump. We went out to the dump to serve lunch and to just be with the people. We prayed, painted nails, and loved.
This is a difficult life but especially for women and children. It is an environment where the strongest win. And in most cases that is the men. When the food was being served there has to be a separate line for women and children the men were pushing and shoving to get a space in line. The men usually get the first pick over the trash when a new truck comes in. And the women usually get paid less when they exchange their trash for their daily income. Can you imagine this life? Having this be your reality. For so many this is all they know and will ever know. I pray that this can stop especially for the next generation. I pray for a better life for everyone in that dump.
