Today:
-Went to the Methare Valley (the second largest slum in Africa > 500K people)
----Was floored
----Put all my goals, dreams, and desires back on the table
----Reconsidered everything
-Ate dinner with some Compassion graduates
----Discussed the secrets of the universe
----Wished my wife was sitting there to experience it with me
-Wrote this blog
3rd Type of Poverty: Economic Poverty
There might be a little more to economic poverty than most people think. Obviously economic poverty has to do with the fact that monetarily people are challenged. People don’t have or make very much money. But it’s not just that, economic poverty is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Impoverished people aren’t educated, because they can’t afford to go to school. With out an education they have no skills; which means they have no job, which brings us back to having no money. Economic poverty feeds it’s self with more economic poverty. Compassion combats economic poverty by paying for school and teaching the children skills.
And now Eric's favs. OBTW, Eric met the child he sponsors today. It was awesome. Here's a link where you can see those pics.
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Our fearless leader, Benjamen.
This is an over head view of the slum. It's as far as you can see in both directions in the middle of the valley.
1 comment:
I have seen plenty of poverty, but never a slum that stretches that far in every direction. I will do everything I can to see that children in Kenya (and elsewhere) get loving sponsors.
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