It's been a sad weekend, thinking about the dump families who were misplaced from their homes on Friday - I have kept wondering about all the little kids and who scared and confused they must be. Extreme Response staff have been out there various time the past couple of days.
Paul sent me an email this afternoon - indicating that some of the families had left the area completely. 8 adults and 12 children have gone in together to rent a small room without a bathroom near the dump. Hard to believe. And five families are living in the same place having put up shacks with pallets and scrap material. Hard to believe this as well.
Paul & Susan then went out there this afternoon with some food, blankets, stuffed animals for the children and some clothing. We are so grateful to Paul & Susan who have taken so much time and effort to go out there and help these people out.
We are still trying to figure out how the whole situation will pan out. And we're still praying and looking for ways to help them. Sometimes it's hard to know what will best help them as we just don't want to encourage them to continue squatting on the land and risk having their homes bull-dozed again by the municipal of Quito. They seem to just keep doing the same thing which is hard to understand.
Please KEEP PRAYING!
2 comments:
i can't even begin to imagine! this
is so sad! praying here...
ruth this is so heartbreaking to here. will be praying. please continue to keep us posted.
deb
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