Many thanks for posting this.
I have a special feeling for Ecuador because I used to help support a little girl there through a program called Foster Child or something like that. If you sent a separate gift, the money went straight to the family, and when I did I was told that it went to buy a sewing machine for the mother so she could have some income and a bed for the “foster child,” who had been sleeping on the floor.
I am breaking the rule about not telling when you give because I wanted to relate the poverty. This was in the suburbs of Guayaquil, which are poorer than the inner city.
The letters that came to me from the father were so beautiful, both in handwriting and in politeness and gratitude. I remember them so well. The point in that video where one person remains a little longer at the coffin as the others move away was heartbreaking.
It is heartbreaking. They are our fellow human beings, and this tragedy is so global in scale that the Mercy is in Los Angeles, and we have little or nothing left for the desperate 3rd world.