Imagine you are living in your nice, quaint neighborhood back home and there are about 50 families that live on your block. Each family has at least 5 members living in the house. But you have no plumbing system and no running water. You have to shower and use the restroom and wash clothes right? That is true but there is only one certain way to do all of that so heres the catch. You are only allowed to go fetch clean water once maybe twice a week at most and to top it off, all other 50 families are on that same regiment themselves. Seems like a travesty if that was our every day life in America doesn’t it?
I don’t write this blog to convict all of you and tell you that you should cut off your water, i write it so that we will be a little more appreciative of the little things such as “clean” running water.
This is a picture of a house from a neighborhood called Las Brisas Del Rio. As you can see, there is not a lot there and the floors are dirt and the roof is almost non-existent. Did i mention that it rains cats and dogs every night? If you are wondering where the bathroom and shower is, it is a small 2 by 2 square space that is wrapped in tarp away from the house. You shower with only a bucket of water that you only are able to get maybe once or twice a week and if you want to use the restroom well all you have is a hole in the ground to do your business. (hence the bathroom/shower being off away from the house) You would think that these people would be sad and upset at their circumstances but they are quite the opposite and it is so beautiful.
Heres just a few of the lovely faces that call this community home. We were able to visit there a couple of times and hang out with the people and just love on them. It was so awesome to see how they lived their lives despite the hardships they face every day.
