San Fernando...so humbling...
We are now sitting back at the Caballero residence (the family that helped us distribute the clothing), their backyard is perfect, cool, and so comfortable. We are about to have lunch...
I feel guilty sitting in such a nice backyard about to have a full lunch, while only a few minutes ago we were spending the morning in one of Santa Marta's (Colombia) poorest neighborhoods. The difference with poverty in the United States and third world countries like Colombia is that these people receive no government subsidies...that means that there are no roads, no official electricity, no running water, no police security, none of the basic necessities we all take for granted.
In no way do I want to depress anybody, we just want people reading this to see how some people live. We had the opportunity to spend the morning in this neighborhood,San Fernando, with the help of Martin, Elizabeth, and Edson who showed us the area and helped us give away all the clothes that we had brought down from NYC.
By the way, this is the same bag (bags!) of clothing (along with Paula's wedding dress)that we recovered from the airport on wed after that nightmarish 4 days of cancelled flights, lost baggage, terrible customer service that we had with American Airlines!
We definitely want to thank Milena P. and Rosita W. for donating so much good clothing. We've got some great video that we need to get on the website so you can all see first hand how happy these children and their mothers were.
Again thanks to everybody who helped us make this small effort in giving back to a community in need. We will be all over South America in the next few months and I highly suspect we will see more of these types of living conditions...so this is not the last time you hear about communities in need. Hopefully each time we learn something new that we could pass along to all of you.
We are so fortunate and want to give thanks. Thank you to Whoever or Whatever has brought us so much good fortune over the past 30+ years of life we have had...
Soon videos and better pictures will be on the website...so stay tuned.. Feb 1, 2008 it starts.
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I feel guilty sitting in such a nice backyard about to have a full lunch, while only a few minutes ago we were spending the morning in one of Santa Marta's (Colombia) poorest neighborhoods. The difference with poverty in the United States and third world countries like Colombia is that these people receive no government subsidies...that means that there are no roads, no official electricity, no running water, no police security, none of the basic necessities we all take for granted.
In no way do I want to depress anybody, we just want people reading this to see how some people live. We had the opportunity to spend the morning in this neighborhood,San Fernando, with the help of Martin, Elizabeth, and Edson who showed us the area and helped us give away all the clothes that we had brought down from NYC.
By the way, this is the same bag (bags!) of clothing (along with Paula's wedding dress)that we recovered from the airport on wed after that nightmarish 4 days of cancelled flights, lost baggage, terrible customer service that we had with American Airlines!
We definitely want to thank Milena P. and Rosita W. for donating so much good clothing. We've got some great video that we need to get on the website so you can all see first hand how happy these children and their mothers were.
Again thanks to everybody who helped us make this small effort in giving back to a community in need. We will be all over South America in the next few months and I highly suspect we will see more of these types of living conditions...so this is not the last time you hear about communities in need. Hopefully each time we learn something new that we could pass along to all of you.
We are so fortunate and want to give thanks. Thank you to Whoever or Whatever has brought us so much good fortune over the past 30+ years of life we have had...
Soon videos and better pictures will be on the website...so stay tuned.. Feb 1, 2008 it starts.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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