IRC/TORCH Team Visits Dump

How is your imagination? For example, have you ever had to face a surgery, the dentist, a procedure, or talking with a friend about something that you really dreaded?  You may have dreaded it for days or weeks, and in your mind, it was going to be a bad outcome, and painful.

Such was the case at the dump.  What we imagined in our minds did not touch what was there.  It was worse that the worst picture in our minds.  The odor was overpowering, but not as intense as the tremendous human need in one place at the same time.

We have never been to the dump in Tegucigalpa but heard that people lived there and needed help, so we arranged to go there for a visit.  We packed 300 lunches for the people living there.  Our team arrived to find that a lot more than 300 people lived and survive at this small portion of the dump.  The small section we were in was as big as a football field and it was only a small portion of the huge area.  This place was home to the people, who had no other way of surviving and eating, scurrying around like ants to get at the rotten food and supplies in the piles. The bulldozer was not even willing to stop for anyone or anything.  The picture below is of the homes they live in, on the side of the dump.