For almost 10 years, we have been feeding over 100 hungry kids in the Casa Hogar group home located in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico. Throughout the life of the group home, Elma, the director, would periodically take the kids to the garbage communities to share any extra donations that they received. But recently, the Lord has been calling her to do more.
The ‘garbage communities’ are made up of people living in literal garbage dumps. For these people, the income they earn from recycling garbage and the free space available for building simple shelters are their only means of having a “home.”
The families rummage through the trash every day to find items they can recycle and sell. Alongside this physical hardship is the devastating mental and emotional toll of social exclusion. They are often referred to as ‘garbage rats,’ but this is not how Jesus and their brothers and sisters in Christ see them. Through your support, we are helping with outreaches that provide food, clean clothes, shoes, and warm meals for children and adults, and, most importantly, Bibles and prayers. We are showing them that God in heaven loves and cares for them.
Thank you for being part of these outreaches. We have been entrusted to bring love and grace to the overlooked and downcast.
