Kirkito's Finished!!

I think this will be my last post for this Mazatlan trip. I plan to go in the Future but I think this will conclude this trip unless I find some more pictures.
These pictures are of the burrito shop were were building and they are more or less of the finished project.

The Dump

Hey people. I never really finished this Blog so I'm attempting to do it now...

This post is showing the day we took a trip to visit this community that lives just outside the city dump and how they get a little income to barely survive. The scavenge the dump to get recyclable materials, and even personal belongings for themselves.
So when the day started we made about 100 sack lunches with the intent of driving up to the dump and handing them out to all the workers. When we got there I was astonished at how many workers there were: men, women, and children. It was quite the site when we pulled up and opened the back doors of the van and an instant crowed formed around us. After our food supply diminished we went down the hill to the community where they all lived and visited a family that some of my friends already had a relationship with. Besides the obvious they had a pretty tragic situation. It was a grandma who was taking care of her grandchildren and probably a few random children as well. The grandma got in that situation because her daughter died in a fire and then left her with all of the grandchildren.
When I visit places like this it is so tragic and it hurts to see, but I enjoy at the same time to experience life with these people and to bring them some sort of joy and they bring me joy at the same time.

Building a Kitchen for Marcos and Liz!!!

My friend Joel form Australia introduced me to a family who lives very poorly, and he set up an idea to build a kitchen for them. The 4 of them live in a 1 room house; Father, mother, son and daughter. They have the kitchen and bunk beds and all there indoor living space in a room thats barely 10 ft sqr. And 1/8 inch plywood that makes up the walls.

So the first day we went out and dug out for the slab and mixed the concrete and poured the foundation, and then a day or two later we put up the walls.

I was told that a year ago the family was living in worse conditions and, had no car, and could barely survive. And Marcos the father somehow got a taxi and works 7 days a weeks and at all hours. Now they have a another car and can afford to pay for electricity. But we decided to bless them with some more kitchen room to help support there way of life which includes food for themselves and a kids club they do every wednesday for about 20 kids in their neighborhood.

Surfing

We had some decent swell one week so we took a day off and drove up north a little bit to a surf spot and had some fun. It is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. You have to take some crazy dirt roads to bypass paying on the toll booth, and then some more dirt roads and then you pop up on the beach to a beautiful wave!!! 

El Centro

One day a group of us went to the old part of Mazatlan called El Centro and I just took some photos of the Cathedral and some wall art.