Below is our home away from home. This is where my brother and his wife live. It is completely surrounded by walls and the entry gate is heavy & always kept locked.
This is a tire shop ... a small business just around the corner...
This is a view of some nice new apartments & a well that you can see nearby from their their rooftop
Jim & Ramona's back yard.
Their front porch & the gate I mentioned earlier
Kitchen
Living Room
A TINY little shack right behind their house...Ramona thinks 4 or 5 people live here...
Ramona standing out in front of her house
Walking home from school - right nearby their house...all over you see piles of debris & trash.
Another view of that little shack above. This is so sad...you see it all over.
Just outside & to the left of their front gate they are building bricks on site ...not sure what they're building tho'.... maybe a house
Right across the way is a mosque viewed here
from their roof - so you can understand why calls to prayer throughout the day are heard so clearly in their home beginning around 5:30AM.
This last one is of their rooftop...I love this concept.as it serves as a nice patio
The dichotomy her is baffling. By that I mean that you have nice homes like my brother's mixed right in w/ tiny little shacks and squatters living in unfinished buildings. I've never seen anything quite like it on such a grande scale. It's heartbreaking.
There are lot's of little shack business too. Lots of trash/litter all over. That I don't think I'd ever get used to. Traffic is CRAZY! Try to picture a U.S. Hwy w/ people living in schacks along side of it....selling stuff ... and people running back & forth to get across - even crossing cement medians in the middle to get to the other side! not to mention that traffic rules are considered more of a suggestion that no one seems to intent on following :)
One thing that impresses me is that despite how dusty & dirty it is here, most of the women keep themselves so clean and they are ...simply beautiful. They certainly take pride in their appearance and I LOVE their dresses! And I think their ebony skin & their dark eyes are just gorgeous :) - Joyce
from their roof - so you can understand why calls to prayer throughout the day are heard so clearly in their home beginning around 5:30AM.
This last one is of their rooftop...I love this concept.as it serves as a nice patio
The dichotomy her is baffling. By that I mean that you have nice homes like my brother's mixed right in w/ tiny little shacks and squatters living in unfinished buildings. I've never seen anything quite like it on such a grande scale. It's heartbreaking.There are lot's of little shack business too. Lots of trash/litter all over. That I don't think I'd ever get used to. Traffic is CRAZY! Try to picture a U.S. Hwy w/ people living in schacks along side of it....selling stuff ... and people running back & forth to get across - even crossing cement medians in the middle to get to the other side! not to mention that traffic rules are considered more of a suggestion that no one seems to intent on following :)
One thing that impresses me is that despite how dusty & dirty it is here, most of the women keep themselves so clean and they are ...simply beautiful. They certainly take pride in their appearance and I LOVE their dresses! And I think their ebony skin & their dark eyes are just gorgeous :) - Joyce
The pictures remind me of Tegucigalpa Honduras. There they also continuously burned the garbage in the streets. Also, I found that inspite of their circumstances, the people were not "beaten down" and were still able to smile without their "iPod" or what ever. The one picture gives a whole new perspective to backyard gardening...pot on sand :)
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