Thursday, August 4, 2016

Mujeres con Esperanza

Passing from a paved street to a dirt road, our van made its way up another 1000 ft to the community of Mujeres con Esperanza. This community like the other communities that surround it was birthed by the migration of people seeking a better life. Hungering for hope. Hope in a future that is more promising than the past they were willing to leave behind. To begin anew.

As easy as it would be to paint the community of Mujeres con Esperanza with a brush coated with romantic images of self-reliance (read: "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps") as many from the U.S. are quick to do, I can attest that type of paint won't stick here.

The community of Mujeres con Esperanza has become newest home for the Association Serving Alto Cayma (ASAC). As more people arrive & the community expands up toward the mountain, so too does ASAC. The ministry of ASAC goes to where the people are to be a physical presence of support & hope.

For some time ASCA has been operating out of a pre-fab building as the new building is currently being constructed. It is spacious & filled with light that bounces off the walls painted in yellow, blue, green & purple & purple & purple. There's a story behind the purple, but that is another story to tell. Not that the community of Mujeres con Esparanza is colorless, but it is a dusty place. So the new building feels like drops of color on brown canvas.


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