Altamira is slowly getting back to normal. Some families are still displaced, but most of them have returned and begun cleaning up after the floodwaters. It seems also that the fears of another dam breaking have subsided. Initially, after the flooding, their seemed to be a bit of chaos as some families were returning with their things, and others were still moving their belongings out in fear of the floodwaters returning.
In the face of suffering like we often see during a natural disaster, we want to help but often don’t know how. So often these feelings slowly pass, never resulting in much action. I was with a group of friends from our church and they decided they were going to make soup and give it away in the street. At the time it didn’t seem like the best use of our time, but as we were running around buying potatoes and carrots and tracking down pots, I realized that giving soup away wasn’t really the point. We were doing something. And yeah, it made us feel good, but more than that it was an act of love.
Agustino tried to show me how to make soup for 75 people ,
but he lost me somewhere around the chopped onions.
Loading up in my truck to take the soup to the street.
In the face of suffering like we often see during a natural disaster, we want to help but often don’t know how. So often these feelings slowly pass, never resulting in much action. I was with a group of friends from our church and they decided they were going to make soup and give it away in the street. At the time it didn’t seem like the best use of our time, but as we were running around buying potatoes and carrots and tracking down pots, I realized that giving soup away wasn’t really the point. We were doing something. And yeah, it made us feel good, but more than that it was an act of love.
Agustino tried to show me how to make soup for 75 people ,but he lost me somewhere around the chopped onions.
Loading up in my truck to take the soup to the street.
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