July 2006

Dominican Republic
The area of Barahona in the Dominican Republic is very underdeveloped and neglected. FTH’s three containers were held up in customs and it took 3 long weeks of exhaustive effort to get them released!! The cause of the hold up was two-fold: (1) new personnel installed after the May elections, and (2) changes in the import/customs laws… both of these combined spell D-E-L-A-Y-S.

The food will be stored at the military base in Barahona. We met with the Lieutenant, who is a Christian. Volunteers will break the containers down into 6,000 family packs that will be distributed through local churches in 17 “battes” (shanty towns for Haitian immigrants). These ‘battes’ are very, very poor - six adults and six children live in one home! [pictured above] In Bombita there are ten single-toilet latrines for 375 FAMILIES (approx 2,000 people).

We bought some rice and beans in country and distributed it in a batte called Alta Grassi. About 150 or so families live there. One mother of nine [pictured left] said she had absolutely NO food in the house at all, and only 11 pesos (33 cents USD) to her name. She woke up that morning and cried to the Lord, “How will my children eat today!” Then the pastor’s wife came by with a coupon for a food pack… her face was beaming all day, and so were her kids!

The evening crusades were well attended (maybe 8-10,000 per night). The team did a lot of evangelism around the city during the days and many people were touched with the positive message of the Gospel.

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