Compelled by Love

It was our last building day today and we chose to return to the community by the city dump.   A 78 year old village matriarch, Fillipa, will sleep on a new wood floor tonight instead of the dirt floor we found when we got to her shack on her plot of ground.  (The black widow spider added an element of surprise to the demolition phase!)

And 22 year old Gina, who has buried 4 babies, was so excited for her new house she was jumping up and down like a child on Christmas Day.

The need is so incredibly great in this community...like so many others.  And when we gave out food and clothing bags at the end of the day, our supply ran out long before the line was at an end.  

We are exhausted.  It's a good exhaustion.  It's an exhaustion not one of us would trade.  And tonight, two more families will have roofs over their heads, literally, and food to eat that wasn't scavaged from the dump.

Glory!