Many children benefit from the Manos de Ayuda center at this landfill community. They eat breakfast as christian music is played from the DVD player attached to the television. Because there are many children that come to these morning feasts, not all of them fit inside the room pictured here. So, Manos de Ayuda has several serving times to accommodate the crowds.
These kids were part of the AM insiders, the early birds who not only arrived for the first serving time, but also made it to the best seats in the house.
The two kids in the back of the room to the right of the television are extremely nice. The older sister kept pressuring her little brother to finish all his food. Unfortunately, the policy at the center is that no food can leave the premises. So children must finish all their food whether they are hungry or not at serving time.
When I talked to the older sister, she asked where I was from in the US. She smiled when she heard that I was from Los Angeles. And then she said that her father, who she had not seen in more than two years, had gone to Los Angeles. He sends her mother $30 dollars a week.
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