For the last month, or most of a month anyways, since I’ve been back, I’ve averaged about an hour a day of running water in my apartment. I guess I shouldn’t complain, there are a lot of people a lot worse off than me.

I’ve been walking around and looking at the damages done by the landslides and torrential rains, and I wonder how I can complain about something as petty as not having water at my sink.

So I’ve started working to help locally, in a problem that spans much of Guatemala, and parts of surrounding countries as well. There’s not much I can do on a large scale, but I’ve been working with a local family to redesign the drainage on their property to reduce the likelihood of future damage. I’ve also been trying to spend my market money with families that need it to rebuild their homes.