Before we left Mexico, Anna and Oscar invited us to their new home for a supper of delicious homemade tamales. The next year we built a home for Rosario and her four children. Rosario was divorced from an abusive husband. While taking day courses in secretarial skills, at nights she worked as a hospital receptionist and on weekends cleaned houses. While doing all this, neighbors took care of her children.
Children are an integral part of our ministry in Mexico.
Wherever we build a house, the children in the neighborhood flock to see what is going on. Margaret encourages us to take time to play with them. Usually a Project Mexico intern comes to the work site and brings storybooks and crafts for the children. On our first day at the work site, Margaret advised us not to hand out presents indiscriminately but to make friends with the children first. This helped keep the children from learning to beg.