The
Mount Carmel Baptist Mission operates in the San Jorge barrio 
on
the outskirts of Choluteca, a city in southern Honduras near the
Pacific coast. It's a place that experiences extreme heat or
humidity year-round. The temperature typically exceeds 90 degrees
in January.
But nobody in San Jorge
has the luxury of air conditioning. Indeed, this is a community
where the 21st Century is utterly non-existent.
Here, children play next to stinking pits of trash and romp through the
same mud as pigs. Six-year-old boys walk the streets in
their underwear because it's the only clothes they have. The clothes children
do wear are tattered and grungy. Many kids have dirty,
matted hair and rotting teeth. They go without baths for days,
if ever.
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