Freeskiing

Logan Writes About Her Experience in Mexico

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USSA
2015-06-19 10:26
 

Devin Logan took some time to pen her feelings about her recent service trip to Tijuana with U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding. She wrote about the excursion to Mexico, what it was like to build a home for a family in need and her experience in a poverty-stricken area in The North Face's blog.

She writes, "The morning of our first build day, we had a morning meeting to go over details of our two-day build and to learn about the family we would be building the home for. We found out that the family only made $65 dollars a week, and the four of them lived in a little shack built on dirt. They had stuffed pairs of jeans into the cracks of their “ceiling” to absorb water because all of their belongings were getting soaked when it rained. The four of them shared a foam mattress for a bed that was propped up on milk cartons. They had no running water. When they showered, they had to fill a bucket and stand in the middle of their home to wash themselves. Their cabinets barely had any food in them, and the food that was in there had flies all over it. Their fridge was bare and had leftover food that was going bad. Just think, the leftovers we don’t even take home and the food we throw-out would be a meal for this family. Being able to see this in person was really hard to take in. It put life into perspective to see that people are actually living in conditions like this, and that if you think you’re having a bad day that someone out there has it way worse than you could even imagine."

Read Logan's full article here.

 


 


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