The poverty here in Tegucigalpa Honduras is amazing. What's even more amazing is the kindness of the people I've met - mostly women and children - while serving with Torch missions these last two weeks. This photo is typical (except the white guy - he's from the US and with us on the Torch Mission trip)...
We give out food, medicine, clothes, and most amazingly - houses. (don't get too excited when I say "houses"... see my last blog entry). Of course, if you have any sense of compassion, you would want to do more. In fact, that is exactly what one young man is doing. I'll have to find my notes to give you details and the pictures are still in my camera, but what he is doing is starting a farm where he can hire people from what is disdainfully called "the dump". It is a land-fill but the very poor come here or even MOVE here to dig through the trash as it arrives. It's a terrible concept, but you do what you need to do to survive.
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