“....Who maketh his  angels spirits and His ministers as Flames of Fire.”

Hebrews 1:7

El Jute is a village that lies just a few minutes walk from the Honduran border.  It is located on a well known contraband road.  This road is used to traffic illegal drugs, coffee, and bananas.

The people from this village earn their living strictly from agriculture.  The main crop is coffee, with corn running a close second.  Coffee is grown for exportation. While working the fields picking coffee beans the local workers earn $2 for picking a 100 lb. bag.  As you can well imagine they are not able to pick that much in a given day.  The majority of the fields are on the side of the mountain, as you can see in the picture above.

The majority of the people live in bamboo or bajareque (mud covered bamboo) huts.  Normally with one main room that everyone sleeps in and an outside kitchen.  If they are lucky they have an outhouse. This entire village has no running water or electricity.