Picture this. Every day you wake up to the dusty morning breeze of the human settlement in San Juan de Lurigancho where you live. After a whole night of sleeping in your rough mattress you walk towards the bucket of water that you know as a shower and clean yourself. You take a 15 minute hike down the mountain where you live and take a bus to your job. You get back home and eat whatever you can find on your way and repeat this, every day.
Every time I can, I join the Techo builds. These builds are always amazing for me because not only do I bond with the family but I feel very please with the end result. But this build, I saw something different. On Saturday morning when we were introducing ourselves to the family, before we even began building, something happened. I had climbed the mountain for almost 20 minutes and I was still exhausted and kept on breathing heavily. I looked up and in the house right above the one I was standing in I saw a man with a bucket washing himself. The family kept on talking about their rich neighbor who lived in the house above and I kept on observing the rich neighbor. That's when it hit me. Every night, before going to sleep, I pray to G-d and thank Him for everything I have in my life, my health, my family, food, and a place to sleep. But I never thought of all the little things we have in life. I was able to identify this global issues in the local or national community. We take too many things for granted. They say that you don't know what you have until it's gone. But maybe we should start appreciating every day. Not everyone has the privilege of living the way that we do and poverty, especially in a country like Peru, is a huge problem.
Every time I can, I join the Techo builds. These builds are always amazing for me because not only do I bond with the family but I feel very please with the end result. But this build, I saw something different. On Saturday morning when we were introducing ourselves to the family, before we even began building, something happened. I had climbed the mountain for almost 20 minutes and I was still exhausted and kept on breathing heavily. I looked up and in the house right above the one I was standing in I saw a man with a bucket washing himself. The family kept on talking about their rich neighbor who lived in the house above and I kept on observing the rich neighbor. That's when it hit me. Every night, before going to sleep, I pray to G-d and thank Him for everything I have in my life, my health, my family, food, and a place to sleep. But I never thought of all the little things we have in life. I was able to identify this global issues in the local or national community. We take too many things for granted. They say that you don't know what you have until it's gone. But maybe we should start appreciating every day. Not everyone has the privilege of living the way that we do and poverty, especially in a country like Peru, is a huge problem.