Purepecha traffic jam!
Waiting for water.
This is how they transport their water to and from their homes.
This is the line of women waiting to use the alotted few buckets of water to do their wash. Most of them had been waiting all day.
This is the amount of water that comes out of the spring that everyone in our village relies on. If you don't get water here, you must buy the water from a water truck. Lately there haven't been enough water trucks coming to town for everyone to buy water. So they must wait.
During rainy season, water isn't a problem, but it hasn't really rained since early November.
These women will wait patiently with their jugs until they get to fill them all up.
What a day! I thought I was going to post today and the title would be," The things that make you go Hmmmm......" but then I got home and found out we had a water shortage. So, that changed my title. What would you do without water? These women are trying to find enough water for their familes to take baths with, to wash clothes with, to wash dishes with, to cook with , to wash their hands with , to drink, to you name it... and all they have is a trickle. Pray for water!
I wanted so badly to capture all of these things that made me go, "Hmmm..." today on camera, but I wasn't able to, so I will just have to do my best at describing what I saw.
Here goes.... a little baby about 18 months old with a blue face mask on, sitting on his mama's lap in the front seat of a moving car, going about 45 miles an hour. Hmmm...... protect from Flu, but risk death in car accident? We are so confused by all of the people wearing these masks which are really uncomfortable, but no one around here uses their seatbelt because they say they are uncomfortable?!? I wonder if the seatbelts were painted blue and everyone wore them for a week if it would start a trend?
Two boys with blue masks covering their faces riding one horse together, in the middle of a deserted farm. Now correct me if I am wrong, but unless they are contagious, who are they protecting themselves from, the horse?
A horse in the street with a really expensive chainsaw strapped to the side of it. I don't know it just looked really funny to me!
Those were a few of the things I saw today while I was in town and thought I would share them.
Our village is struggling right now! The Flu is the least of their worries right now, without water, WE are going to have far greater problems! Right now our family has about a week and a halfs (half) ? worth of water. We are going to try and stay on top of our water situation, but please pray we don't get desperate! Thanks for praying! Love, Missy
