Lend a helping hand in the third world

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This article focuses on a life experience of a a Sugar Grove resident named Earlita Markham during her mission trip in El Salvador and she was invited by the Illinois District Council Assemblies of God to go on this trip in 2004, right after seeing the TV shows on hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes that striked El Salvador for many years. Only more than 20 people are chosen to go on this missionary trip to El salvador, and she was the chosen one from the Church in Elburn. The minimum wages in El Salvador are very low. She is determined to help out people in El Salvador before she went to visit. She first ended up in King's Castle in El Salvador, a campus for missionaries and ministers, where they can help out the children and the society in El Salvador, but usually the children will go to King's Castle if they need additional assistance. Many things have been donated to the King's Castle from the delegation ship. Markham worked in the sewing room while other people played a role in landscaping, medical, optical, painting, and haircut group, especially ministries. Markham concluded about her feelings when she first came to El Salvador --it was a depression to see them go through like this, but after she came back from the trip, she learned not to take so much for granted, but she admitted she was fortunate to have many things in America she was from and we had take it for granted as being born Americans. I think her conclusion is simply a way to brag about how she is fortunate to be living and working in America, but I am glad she went to El Salvador to experience it all. But should she be a little bit criticizing of America for not doing much to save El Salvador?