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 I don't think I had ever really thought about the right to eat, the right to clean water, the right to adequate health care nor the write to learn until I actually left the states and initially arrived in Colombia and now in El Salvador. People in neither place do not take the basic rights I stated above for granted.

Our world is connected today and we can read what is happening in Asia, Africa, South America, North America by a click of a mouse. We know that children are being deprived of the basic human rights Right Now. Human beings are valuable. They are made in God's image. They are His creation. Yet great injustices are happening. Children are going hungry and live in situations where they cannot grow and play like many ways of a 'normal' child. Some children are forced into prostitution, gangs, crime and others have no access to adequate healthcare and clean water because of factors outside their control.

God cares about these children who aren't receiving Mercy and Justice in their lives. He cares about their physical suffering and He cares deeply for their spiritual suffering. He wants to use us to serve a world that is in need of knowing Him....body and soul.

As a follower of Christ, I am thankful to be part of Being Him to the world.... that looks different for each of us but it is possible. No person is off limits to bringing God's Mercy and Justice to the world.

A number given so this child may receive lunch that we as group were preparing

A quick line formed for those with their 'numbered cards'

'Cards' ran out..these boys are hoping we have left over food

Portion of the path that lead to fresh clean water

                                                                  
                                                               

             After a 50 minute walk TO the natural fresh spring water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

Oncology floor of El Salvador's Children's Hospital

 

Children at one of the schools

First day of a new soccer program started in a gang community. Children's first time ever experiencing an organized sport

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a look at some of the housing in El Salvador