Their living condition...

The living condition for the families we were building for are pretty bad, this one particular in the picture. The whole yard was filled with garbage, lots of broken car parts, the soil is probably contaminated with engine oil and car's grease, broken glass everywhere. In canada here, we talked about safety hazard everywhere and make such a big deal out of it. If people see broken glass or sharp rocks in the park, they'll probably try to sue someone and make a profit out of it. But in Mexico, this is where the people live, this is what they see when they walk out their house, that's where they play everyday. And you can see there's a big hole in the ground. It seems like people are burning garbage in there or something, or there's a broken pipe in there. It was constantly releasing toxic smoke when we were building. We felt sick just building a house beside it for a few hours, imagine the family living right beside it. That hole was less than a foot away from their front door.

The people you see in the picture, they are actually trying to flatten the ground before we build the house on there, and also clear out some of the garbage as well. There is no cement, no nice tiles or carpet, or anything on the ground, the dirt is what they live on inside the house. Even before we finished putting the house together, we saw ants already crawling on the walls we built. The house we built is only 12x12, that means only 144 square feet. A family of five live in that small space. Before the trip, I was still thinking about my future double garage house all the time.