La Avispa

La Avispa is a small village where a river recently destroyed 17 homes/buildings. What a tragedy. They have had some support by The Carpenteros and Friends but those families still are at a huge loss. One of the buildings that was destroyed was their Centro de Salud, which is their Health Center. This village is one of the villages that is a part of the Community Transformation Program. Unfortunately I was not able to be part of the entire process but I was able to go to the final meeting where the community is gathered and presented a booklet of all their information which is gathered by Diaconia. This booklet contains the information that the community needs to start the acctually transformation. Now the community can organize themselves to start working on their list of necessities, and present information to the municipality with requests for support so they have a much better chance of getting support from the government. A water project was one of their needs, but like many communities they do not have the resources to accomplish such a large task. Diaconia is therefore helping to get a team to help this community, such as King's College or Biola University who send teams each year to work on and support water projects.

It was an absolute pleasure for me to be a part of this meeting and see all the information that is in that booklet. For a community like that, this little booklet can help so much. I hope that I will have the opportunity to go back and see things starting to change and improve as I am sure they will.

Please pray for this community, especially all those people who lost their homes.