I’ve arrived at Manila in the Philippines a couple of days ago and my team of six is staying with about seventy other World Racers at the YunJin Lyso Ministry Center. My team of six, Malachi, is partnering with Kids International Ministries to serve in the Ramavile subdivision community. That community is composed of about 100 families that have been through the Ondoy Typhoon Tragedy in September 2009 when there were over 450 recorded deaths. According to our contact, Miles, houses had been flooded to the rooftops with polluted black water that was infested with malaria carrying mosquitoes so that the residents were moved to an evacuation center, but many have returned to their homes now that it is dry season.
There is no electricity in most homes nor is there clean water, even from the wells.
Many people will complain about the social and economic of injustice of the world, but few will do anything about it. I consider Miles, a volunteer at KIM, to be a hero because of how she started feeding programs for the kids in that community in 2007. She started feeding meals to about thirty kids with her own money and is now feeding up to one hundred kids per day at a room that she built above her own house. God has been providing donations from all over the world for her to distribute to the community- from school supplies to care packages with clean water and basic hygiene items to the food that goes toward the daily feeding program. Miles is very busy as single mom with two kids and runs her own business, but because of her compassionate heart, she makes time and steps out in faith daily to serve the community.
