Today we served breakfast to 53 kids, 22 adults. Who knows what numbers we’ll have tomorrow? The more the merrier!
We also had a little time to drive around the neighborhood today and can certainly see where families are falling on hard times. Each day at breakfast we have seen new families who join us.Monday afternoon was our tourist day. We had a few hours to walk the streets and visit the local vendors. Everything is so cheap even the youth didn’t bother to barter. In some cases the youth said the vendor bartered themselves down to make a sale. Everyone was quite pleased with their afternoon of shopping.
While walking around the main area of San Felipe it is not hard to notice that this place has some history. As well, local municipal income is rather low and it would appear that federal income is not very significant. The local infrastructure needs a lot of work. The main highway leading into town is new. Local streets are falling apart and in the community where we are working the streets are made of sand. Clean and safe drinking water is either delivered to your home by local vendors or you have to pick up your own water. Despite the local economy and in all I have seen so far I have only come across one pan handler. As warm as it was today this lady was bundled up. I walked past her once waving her off.
On my way back to the van I snapped a few pics and slipped her 50 pesos. I pray that it helps. The people of San Felipe are a proud and friendly bunch and willing to do anything for you. I picked up some supplies for the next days breakfast and as I finished the check-out this little feller of about 6 years pulled my cart to the van. He was as cute as can be, carried on a conversation (I had no idea what he said), and pulled all my groceries out of the cart as well as each flat of eggs. He started to leave, I stopped him and slipped him a 10 peso coin. I was impressed that the little guy didn’t even ask. I’ll have to get a picture with him tomorrow.
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