A way out… maybe

This lady and her two beautiful girls operate a grocery stand. Her shop was just outside the IDP camp we visited. She was selling butter, chicken boullion flavor cubes, cans of condensed milk, corn, rice, and even taco seasoning packets. This was the most hopeful situation I’ve seen during our IDP camp visits. Her entrepeneurial efforts can potentially improve her and her family’s life situation.

But for the most part, I can’t envision the exit strategy for most IDP camp people. It’s supposed to be temporary but they seem stuck.

These two cute little buddies ran up to us as we were leaving. They will probably grow up playing and eating with the pigs and chickens and goats in their tents or mud huts. They are impoverished but they don’t know it. They sure seemed happy. I wish they had enough food and clean water though. And an exit strategy