The 12th St area floods a foot or so every day during high tide. Usually that high tide is before or after the Kids Church feeding, but once in a while it coincides and creates a challenge! The sewage canals run just under the "sidewalk", and many times a portion of the cement sewer covers are broken or missing. When high tide happens, the water from the nearby river (a drainage ditch), mixes with the sewage, and that's what floods the street and our lot where we hold our Project Life activities. Much of the infections and disease experienced by our kids are a direct result of them playing in the filthy water!
Here's some pictures of a recent high tide and our brave cooks wading in to prepare the nutritious food for the kids. They were still able to serve 200 kids and moms. That same day, a team from the Logos Hope ship came to help with the kids. They were very flexible when they saw the condition of the lot, and helped us relocate kids up the street out of the flooded area for Children's ministry.
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| preparing food at back of the lot |
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| entrance to Project Life lot with broken sewer cover |
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