Visiting the street inhabitants of Medellin

Street in Medellin inhabited by homeless people. 11 pm

Today was a quite impressive day.

First I went filming two orphanages run by Youth with a Mission in Medellin, then I followed them as they went out on the streets to give bread and hot chocolate to street bums in the inner city.

I have never seen so many worn people at once. The people were in terrible condition: dirty, unhealthy, drug-addicted, malnourished and some sick. Many of the men with unkempt beards and the women skinny from years of drug use. On some streets there were long rows of people sitting or lying on their make-shift beds, some smoking cheap drugs or sniffing glue.

Most of them gladly received the bread and the hot chocolate and the people from Youth with a Mission talked to them and prayed for them and told them how much God loves them.