It was just a hot shower and soap. No small thing. Although maybe not. In many parts of the world–the poorer countries like Haiti plumbing and hot water is a big thing. Many people there don’t have that luxury. In fact, even a bar of soap, something we take for granted is, also, a luxury. Disease is running rampart there because many can’t wash after themselves properly. It is just basic hygiene and many are dying because they can’t afford one bar of soap. It is so easy to take your life for granted and you do not realize how rich you are in the United States. And how much you really have.
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One bar of soap. Does not seem much. There is such a schism between the rich countries and Haiti, who is having a cholera epidemic because most people can’t afford one bar of soap to wash themselves after they go to the bathroom.
Our church is collecting wrapped bars of soap to be sent as part of a kit to Haiti. Haiti is one of the poorest countries of the world and there are still hundreds of thousands of people living in camps after an earthquake devastated their country maybe a year ago.
They have been out of the news but their poverty has not left them and they have not recovered from the earthquake. And now cholera is sweeping through their midst.
And something as little as one bar of soap can slow down the spread of that disease. It gives you some food for thought. No American gives any thought to buying a bar of soap. Yet it is a luxury there.
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