Stories
Food Distribution
Three times a week Triumphant Mercy goes out to deliver food for some of the poor. These are a couple of the stories from this week.
This woman *Maria* lives alone. Her husband died a while ago and she has no children. She is all alone. Her and her Ethiopian neighbor try to help each other. She is very old and lives on a large hill. After getting up the hill she needs to rest before taking the stairs into her house. She hoards trash, as throwing anything away when she has so little, seems like an overwhelming idea.
We also spoke to a man named *Youssef* He wears his jacket year round because He has no home to leave it in. His brother lets him stay inside at night, but not in his home, only in the staircase. He collects trash for the surrounding buildings and brings them to the dumpster to earn the small amount of cash that the residents give him.
There is a small shop that Triumphant Mercy hopes to make into a small coffee shop and a place to serve lunches in order to generate income to help fund the feeding of the poor. There is a university near by, and we hope that students will find it a place to get a quick lunch or a coffee knowing they are helping something bigger.
