Rainy Season

We are entering the rainy season.  It isn't full on yet but it rained a few times last week.  It keeps the dust down and it is clowdy at least part of the day cooling it off a little bit...not much but a little.  The last rainy season was not rainy enough for the corn crop.  The reserves are already running out and the prices are getting too high for most of the people who really need it. T he families in the villages work their own fields and depend on growing enough for the whole year.  Many of the people around us expect to run out a couple of months before the next crop comes in.  A few weeks ago the president officially declared a national emergency, and it is expected that 4 to 6 million people won't have enough food this year.  We've been helping out our workers loaning them money to buy the bags of corn they need and we now have plans to buy as many bags as we can to help our workers and others around us.  The parish here also does a lot of work to feed those in need.  We've offered our help but they seem to have the help they need already.  The biggest difficulty is finding the corn to buy.