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We observed workers moving rocks barefoot because they only had one pair of shoes and needed them to last. Families who lived in a landfill without electricity or running water, hoping to make a dollar a day sorting trash. As the mission director, Julia, told us, “I know that you think that you have problems in the U.S., but compared to what we have here, you live in heaven.” While we had grown up hearing about those in need, our first hand encounter was sobering.