Nicaragua

“Is it not to share your food with the hungry

and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—

when you see the naked to clothe the him,

and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”

Isaiah 58:7

Nicaragua

• Nicaragua is the largest of the central American republics
• The illiteracy rate in Nicaragua is 23.3%
• GDP per capita is $1,028, which is 2% of the U.S.
• The mortality rate for children under the age of 5 is 38 per 1000
• 43% of people in Nicaragua live in a rural area, 2 of those 3 people survive on less than $1 a day
• 46% live in poverty, 15.1% live in extreme poverty
• Children living in regions in crisis about 40% are undernourished 
• 97% of Nicaraguans are Christian

This is what breaks my heart.

These people have so little, yet so many people are willing to give everything they have up to a stranger to help them out. 

The people of Chacocente are living on the trash.  Eating the trash.  Wearing the trash.  And offering up what they have.

I am so blessed to have everything I do, but even more than that I am blessed to get to go down there and spend time with those people.  Love those people.  Help those people.  And I cannot wait.  

Love,

Katie