More Mexico Pics

Kids are the same all over the world

I am always so amazed by their innocence when they live in such harsh conditions

Yessica loves the IIWII quiltThis little guy was hilarious...he was more than willing to hold Niles for a quick pic

The school building is behind him...you can see the pile of scrap lumber and etc that has been stacked to the side of the building. They are still in the process of getting walls up and a roof on.

This one room house was built by AMOR Ministries. Concrete floor (hand mixed in a tub then hand spread), 2x4 frame covered with plywood then wrapped with chicken wire and then is covered in stucco. There is a window space made into the house and a door space, not all homes get an actual window and door, some just use whatever they can find to cover that area. It takes a group of volunteers 3-4 days to build one of these homes. Most of the homes in this community were built of scrap fiberglass sheets, old fence sections, pallets...pretty much anything they can get their hands on, AMOR hopes to do alot more building in this community, wouldn't it be wonderful for each family to have an AMOR built home!!!. Glass windows and doors are a major luxuary. No flush toilets...anywhere, just a bano out back. No running water, just a 50 gallon water container that is filled by a water truck that travels all over, there is a charge for water something like $3-5. Electricity is also a luxuary, those that do have it have a single bare wire running from the power pole to thier home...lots of times those bare wires run across the streets and through their yards. Most cooking and washing is done outside.

Hopefully my son got better pics, as usual I get caught up in loving on the kids and forget that I have a camera with me. Ryan had his camera out and was snapping some shots as well, hopefully they are different than what Lydia and I took.