Monday,
February 16, 2004
 What's
Arron saying...
Last
Friday, I arrived with a team from Hartland, Michigan.
Tegucigalpa, the capitol city of Honduras,
has over ten thousand
homeless children. Saturday was our first real chance to
see the need in Teguc. And to work on Feeding Center
#2. We only
worked a half-day to get us acclimated to the heat and
work. We chipped out a two-foot by three-foot section
of rock wall
to make a space for a door into the cellar. It took us
from 8:30 AM ‘till 1:30 PM to create the hole
and to chip three 3-inch by 6-inch holes. At 3:00
PM, we helped feed
the hungry children at the worksite. It was a wonderfully
exhausting
day.
Sunday, we attended a church pastored by
Alvin Anderson. In the evening, we went to talk with the
street kids whom
Alvin knew. We took packages of cookies to give away. It
was very sobering and saddening to hear their stories.
I am one of only two people in our group who understand
Spanish,
so I spent most of the night attempting to translate both
from Spanish to English, and vice versa.
Today, Monday, we worked a full day
at Feeding Center #2. We actually began building the
center instead
of tearing
parts off. The children are everywhere and think we’re
there with food for them. It was absolutely heartbreaking
to be the one to have to try to explain why we couldn’t
give our food away. We had thirty sandwiches with us for
twenty workers. If we even gave away a half of each of our
sandwiches, there would still be a crowd going hungry. It
felt sickening to have to eat in front of them. I don’t
understand how Alvin and Nellie Anderson can go through that
nearly every day. It is impossible to feed everybody. This
has been one of the hardest, yet the most life changing days
I ever had.
Aaron
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