Street Vendor Market St Lucia
Meager Earnings
Retrospective thoughts about current events, our spirit normally takes us where we want to go, ascertain what we wish to achieve and we move without refrain.
In bondage of our home perimeter, for a short duration (I hope), so let us expand our enjoyment with what is around us or places we plan to see or go when the rulings slowly go away.
Normally at this time of the year we venture further up the North Coast avoiding the heat, excessively high humidity this region is far more humid to where we live, to simply enjoy the pleasures of wildlife, small village living along with exquisite beaches up in the region.
Sadly with this dilemma we find ourselves in, these folk will be battling to eke out a small living, relying on tourists (no travel right now) in the area to earn a living in this remote spot.
Once the store is neatly showcasing all products some sit quietly on a mat and continue doing beading work, production onsite. Men will carve wooden carvings at the homestead which the woman will bring into to town to sell.
Avocado, lemons, pineapples on display, potatoes, tomato together with other fruits and vegetables yet to be put out for trade, photography was early morning while still setting up stalls for the day. Road side has fruits and vegetables, walkway (pavement) through the middle, all other displays are under the thatch roof.
These stores have to be emptied at the end of day with no lock-up to secure them over night, so this is a daily occurrence earning a meager amount to sustain their families.
I do enjoy that the local municipality made the effort to build a thatched area for these traders to have some protection from the weather, keeping with a very traditional African look and feel it blends in very well on the high street the only main road in town.
Normally when leaving for home we do stop and purchase a variety of produce to take home, cheaper than in our area, fresh straight from the farm, supporting these rural woman in earning a living.
Trinkets I have many, when family visited from New Zealand small items went over with them, a fine reminder of home.
but it was not yet her hour for complete victory:
my blood was still warm;
the mood of the revolted slave was still bracing me with its bitter vigour;
I had to stem a rapid rush of retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Good Reads
Some flowers to add cheer....
Wishing Each And Everyone A Wonderful Weekend
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I see that the shops are flooded with those small avos Lady Joan.
The usual lovely post here and may it do well.
We nipped out to a second hand shop to see if they had paving blocks for the garden. In the car we had some food parcels that we wanted to drop off first in one of the poor areas where we work.
When they saw our car approaching a wave of people started to stream out and we would never have had enough, so we drove past the place.
It hurts, as hunger is a terrible thing.
So, no paving blocks, no delivery of the food parcels and no avos.(I don't like the small ones)
What a life!
Avo must be the big round butter flavour or I don't buy.
Getting food to the people you know who are needing is going to be a difficult option with so many now in dire straits, especially the huge number of children.
My hollow gut feeling is this has been taken a step too far!
Sssh! My friend, I have the same feeling and we are standing before an abyss.
As we were driving off I could hear them shouting insults at us, as our car is known all over the place.
Once happy and grateful people have been transformed by hunger into desperate throngs.
An explosion is imminent whilst the politicians are playing around with human lives.
Their folly will come back to haunt them as they wangle trying to appease everybody.
Uneasy feeling since the start of this, too many crammed into small living accommodation throughout the land.
Country has been on it's knees for some time, now we collapse crawling on our bellies in the sand, yes hunger far outweighs an unseen virus.
We can only pray my friend.
There is always hope for sanity.
Enjoy your evening!
@Papillioncharity My heart goes out to you as you had to choose to be in the middle of a riot or to let the people be angry with you for not stopping. What a choice. :(
You did the right thing, even if it hurt. You cannot risk you and your wife to be hurt. I do worry about the poorest of the poor there, they have no escape plan. They are at the mercy of the government, who don't seem to realize what it feels like to be in dire straights and have to worry about feeding the family.
God help us all. xo
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Thank you my dear Lady Denise.
You are right, as I couldn't put Marian at risk.
The crowds here are extremely violent and for sure if they get hold of us, the car would be burnt and our live's would come to a brutal end.
A ticking time bomb in the townships as they say, but as usual nobody listens.
It is one thing to sit in a plush mansion and to make decisions about the dire needs of the poor, instead of getting out there and really helping them.
Very sad times over here.
Glad that have been here and that you know what I am talking about.
God help us all indeed!
Blessings and thank you for the care.
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These are the people I feel so sorry for Joan, as they can't sell their goods now! Some desperate ones are turning to petty crime now but some criminal types are benefiting from the police focusing on other issues - just down the road from us there are some mansions and two nights ago just after 6pm, seven armed men scaled an electric fence while the owner was out, they came in 2 cars, harassed the wife and their 4 sons and made off with electronic goods, clothing and an expensive car, really terrifying! The owner said he was told this is happening more often now from 6pm till early morning and I believe it's because the police are too intent on setting up road blocks for the nightime curfews! A local guesthouse who has a permit told me how they harass the essential services workers who work long hours!
I just wish this was all over so we can return to normality. Stay safe!
We will never know a "normal' ever again I don't think Lizelle, housebreaking is on the increase here as well. Lockdown has pushed many over the edge, hungry people will go looking for whatever they can lay their hands on.
Take care this is going to take some time.
Lovely post, sad times for villagers, actually for all of us. I like the fact that you brought some flowers in the end, to cheer us up a little. We’ll get over this! Much love from New Jersey 🥰
Isn't life strange, how fast this has altered everyone. Yes the joys we find outdoors is still our salvation! Take care and keep smiling.
Great post. Looking forward to things getting back to normal after COVID.
Hopefully sooner than later, great to see you again.
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I am just so beside myself when I see sights like this and know we have our own set, far and away from where I am. That is almost worse, knowing, and not seeing. My eyes have seen it and cannot unsee this.
Childish as it is, Joan, I just want it to all go away. Today. Make it all right. Make it normal.
Le sigh.
What you write is so true. So scary that people live in a world like this. Yet, so much has changed, almost overnight. It is definitely scary. I feel for these people. How does it feel to lose hope? Can they truly have hope?I worry about that here also, the have and have nots. The margin is so wide, why wouldn't they break in? They are starving and without. No government help? Where do they think they will get it from?
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Numbers are exceptionally high of people living on the breadline before this happened, now locked up unable to get food or sell can only reap havoc. Massive fundraising has taken place with food parcels, sadly politics has raised it's ugly head within distribution.
Logically a food parcel may feed a family for a week, what about next week, and the next....
This world has never been fair, never will be either, rich still getting richer while the poor will be ignored, sad reality of life!
Have a lovely day!
I read this with a heavy heart because, of course, you are right, but for all my years of working with the homeless, it never gets any easier.
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