Nueve de Febrero

Sally was keen to show us a new community called Neuve de Febrero that the team here have become aware of after the flood. This community of 28 families lives right beside a creek, which sounds quite nice, until you realise that the creek smells badly of raw sewage and the homes are less than half a metre from a 2 metre drop in to the foul smelling water. Lots of rubbish and dead rats floated past and Sarah A had a close encounter with a live rat. Here is what the creek looks like:



Once we arrrived at a place to talk with some of the residents, Carol and then Sarah A and Grace sat on a log over-hanging the creek. Very brave!





When the flood came the water was about 3m above the current level, if you look at this picture the water came up to where the plastic is showing:


To get in and out of the community you have to do a tightrope walk across a walkway less than half metre wide with a significant fall to one side, here are some of the team negotiating it when we left: