What shall we say then?

The Huánuco “region” is one of the seven poorest regions of Perú. I don’t know if it’s #1 or #7. In these seven regions:

“66% of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition,
79% of households have no piped water,
94% percent lack sewerage, and
94% of families use wood as their cooking fuel.”

Sadly, this data is right on. (Source here.) This is what life is like for the women and their families that we were visiting last weekend during the most recent Women of the Bible workshops. While leaving the last town, we stopped to snap this photo of a little girl waiting for her mom and big sister:

“Clean water

and health care

and school

and food

and tin roofs and cement floors,

all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”

--Paul Farmer qtd. In Mountains Beyond Mountains