Brundal Settlement (April 27, 2105)

The Settlement committee L to R:
Sydwell-Spokes person, Percy (female) Community Structure Person, Thomas Khosa-Committee Member, and Zane Moengs-in charge of the youths.

Each person is allowed a tiny lot to build a structure. They are vulnerable to the winds a African storms.

This creative child had one flip flop and creatively fashioned a shoe out of a plastic bottle.

Many of these people work in the eucalyptus forest and make less than $1.00 a day and get one non nutritional meal. Fire raged through the settlement last year devouring 1/2 the dwellings and taking a few lives. (Our friends told us-they gathered clothes and food to take them). Please pray for these children of God.

This one took me to my knees. God shows up with hope just when you might think there is none. This settlement has been here for 20 years!

This is BELOW poverty level. Notice the size. There is an average of 4 people per dwelling.

Yet they can still laugh and love.

This is the bore hole we want to get a hand pump installed on so they can have water.

Percy stands on one "street" that is not wide enough for a car. The dwellings are literally right next to each other.