Our church did a vision trip to Mexico about three years ago. I would have gone on that but the kids were too young yet.
I'm still processing all the information that I learned while in Nicaragua. So I'll post more when I have it all sorted out in my mind, and when I download the pictures from my camera.
We were running a kids camp, taking children from the dump in Granada and giving them three days of regular meals and normal childhood play; games, a few English lessons, music, a Bible lesson, swimming, and just plain old-fashioned love and attention.
Apparently $5 / day working in the sugar cane fields is considered a "good" wage; the folks working in the dump, digging for recyclable plastic and metal might get $1 every day or every other day.
I'm having a good deal of trouble reconciling the fact that I can blow, on a mediocre lunch, the entire daily wage of someone working MUCH harder than I do.