Life is simple, poverty is everywhere and the minimum wage for the country is 160 pesos per day. In this area the most common jobs are hard labor in the sugar cane fields, rice paddies, or fishing. The people have tremendous physical needs because of poor nutrition, disease, parasites, rotten abscessed teeth, and no money for medicine. So many of the families do not have electric or water in their little wooden shacks, with simple tin roofs. The government installed small hand water pumps every few blocks for the people to fill their water pails and carry them to their family shacks for water.
Life is tough here.
There is little hope of a better life than abject poverty. Clinic Our team has set up the clinic in a local church and we have about 20 native helpers working along side of us. Several local churches have come together with volunteers to help our medical team. For that reason, we are seeing more patients than normal and have been very warmly received by the city, because their own people are involved in the clinic. So far, we have seen 1,579 people in five days.