Living in 180 Square Feet
This week I’ve gotten several questions from you guys about how a typical Dominican family lives. Here’s a quick video that will give you an idea of what it’s like. Sorry for the rough camera work. I’m a pastor not a cameraman.
The Dominican House from Pete Wilson on Vimeo.
11 Comments:
Wow – thanks for sharing, Pete – really puts things in perspective.
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Kristie
9:59 pm
Pete, this reminds me VERY much of the villages we worked in down in the Bahamas. I never really saw the tourist area but worked in villages on 3 different trips. We basically caulked this shack sized building back together and repaired it and painted it – it was the size of maybe my living room. Four families lived in it. It was amazing to see.
I have been so touched to be able to read and see your ministry there. Thank you for sharing.
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Jan
10:06 pm
thanks for sharing Pete
most of the time, i find myself comparing what I have to those who have more than me. that only produces feelings of envy and jealousy
when I turn my attention to those who have less than me, like the people you are helping in DR, it produces feelings of gratitude
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Aaron
10:31 pm
Pete-
I’ve been the DR to work in Villa Mella, a poorer part of Santo Domingo, to its north. I think what struck me about the DR was the vast difference between rich and poor. Part of my mission trip was to serve some of the richest students on the island at their private high school. After the school day ended I went to Villa Mella and served the poorest people I’ve ever been around. I think your house footage is accurate for a large sum of Dominicans, but there is the other side of the coin, the people that are wealthy enough to fly to Canada every winter to go skiing, and fly to Paris to go shopping. That is the sad part of being in a 3rd world country. A wide divide between rich and poor.
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Tyler
10:56 pm
That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing!
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Emily Rowe
7:11 am
I totally agree with Aaron, I have felt like that and I think everyone should see your video, we should appreciate what we have and be humbled that God has blessed us with so much.
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Cheri
7:39 am
It is hard for me to comprehend that I sell houses for hundreds of thousands of dollars, while families in the DR and other 3rd world countries, build tiny shacks out of scrap wood….
Thanks so much for sharing this video.
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melissa irwin
7:44 am
A very sobering remind about how good we really have it. These kind of videos should disturb us to action and get us thinking about how we can do with less so we can give more.
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bradruggles
11:01 am
I will never again apologize to anyone that my 1,100 sq. ft. home is too small.
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ncarnes
12:30 pm
Thank you for sharing. I needed to see that today.
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Kathy
11:30 pm
Wow. I’m sitting here with tears in my eyes looking around my house while my babies all sleep soundly in their beds…. and I have such an appreciation…but at the same time, it pains me to know that people actually call that living, call that life. It reminds me of building houses in Mexico. As a teen I had no idea what it meant to live like that other than “oh ma gosh, you don’t have a tv?!” But now, as a mom, as a wife, as an adult with responsibilities, it’s all so different. My heart is heavy.
I don’t know if you caught a comment from me on a post a while back…. I think I was late showing at that one too
but my cousin has lived in the DR for several years. Started out as a missionary there and eventually “moved in” and started teaching kids there. He fell in love. As is easy to do in those situations.
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Brandy
1:48 am
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