Day 3: What can I do?

Today started with service: everybody pitched in to help clean up Crossroads. Yes, parents, your kids were sweeping, clearing gutters, cleaning walls...there is now no excuse and they will be able to help in any renovation projects.

We also broke into groups to work more on the Global Distribution...sorting, folding, cleaning rusty bikes.....

After lunch and some rest time (this humidity is a killer for the hairstyles!) we were involved in a poverty simulation game. This involved us breaking into "families", and working by making paper bags, and then having to beg merchants to buy them from us. It is very hard to describe this activity, except to say that we all saw poverty from a different angle: it isn't just about money. The problem is much deeper than merely a lack of finance. We saw poverty through the eyes of a mother, through the eyes of real people. 3 billion people in our world live in poverty. We have to care about that.

One person caring a little bit can have a snowball effect. Mother Theresa never planned to become Mother Theresa. She just wanted to help one person with what she had.

And then...for some light relief, we went and had fun on the beach.