Poor People

 
This is the squatter area along the road we take into Georgetown. These people do not own the land and their dwellings are made of whatever they can find. They all have bridges over the trench and they all have a gate that they can close and lock. The people who live here are clean, keep nice yards, do lots of laundry, send their children to school (if they can afford uniforms) and generally like everyone else. They are just too poor to purchase a house lot. They run the risk of having the government sweep them off - although I've been told that most of these houses have been here for 15 to 20 years. They also run the risk of major flooding. The trench you see runs along Lamaha Street. Behind the area is a big canal. Heavy rains send both the canal and the trench over their banks.