Marcia Biggs:
A place where the mission has not yet disappeared is to quote Soleil, where the gangs were born decades ago. We were able to access it with the non-profit organization Way to Health, which provides medical care and food to children there with the tacit authorization of the G-PEP gang.
We are in a TAP noise, which is essentially a covered van. It is much safer to be in a Tap-Spap than in our own car, because the members of the G-PEP gang know this TAP-Spap.
We cross the front line between the G9 and G-PEP gangs, nicknamed the crossroads of death. Last year, the G9 blocked all the other roads to the territory of G-PEP and violated or murdered anyone who tried to go out. Once on G-PEP territory, we go to motorcycles, because a wastewater river and garbage makes the road invalid for cars, a physical reminder to all this district is forgotten.
We arrive in Way to Health’s Farsiff Clinic for sick children, children suffering from malnutrition and their mothers, victims of nonexistent poverty and health care. This baby probably has a typhoid. Her mother was killed, so she is treated by her aunt, who says she is doing her best.
