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However, I found out the disparities that truly exist when I went on a missions trip to Juarez, Mexico. What I discovered is that while poverty in the United States is fairly rough, typical poverty in the United States versus typical poverty in countries like Mexico are two entirely different things. What I learned is that while the United States has a lot of problems with inequality, politics and so forth, those problems are all much larger and much more protracted in Mexico. The trip I took was a team of kids my age and our mission was to build an addition onto a house so that a man's grandparents could live with him and his wife and kids. When I say "house", I by no means refer to a house along the lines of what an American would expect, or even demand. Instead, I'm talking about a rather crude stucco shack with a rather simple door and no artificial ventilation. It was basically just a shed or an earth structure that was meant to shield the occupants from the rain.
Another part of the trip had a tangential and similar effect. Rather than stay in Juarez proper, we stayed out in the boonies in an open field using tents. We literally had to bring our own water in a big tank. Indeed, the water was so dirty and impure and the area so suspect at night, we literally made camp in a field with a portable supply of water that we had…
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