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All right, welcome to the Ocean Water Podcast.

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I'm here with my great friend today, Sumpapo.

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That's what we all call him.

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His name's actually Cesar.

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Yeah.

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And I wanted, yeah, yeah brother.

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I wanted you guys to get a chance to know him.

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He's our good friend.

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And Sumpapo, why don't you just tell us a little bit about yourself, how long you've

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been in Palmarcita, and just tell us a little bit about yourself.

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Yeah.

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Hi everybody.

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Well, I know Ryan like five years ago when the police came to here to put on the project

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from the water system.

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And then I live, well, I have 32, 33 years now, but I live all my life here.

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So I'm at a local from Palmarcita all the time.

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My dad and my mom is live here all the life.

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So I'm at the second generation from my mom.

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And then I help learn the community here, working on the project from the water, you

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know.

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And yeah.

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Great brother.

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Why don't you tell everyone what the water situation is like where you live?

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Yeah.

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Well, it had the one well here when it's like a broil from a time.

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It's like you had to pay from that water.

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But now it's not really constant because like the well is not had too much water.

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So that's like really bad situation because now all the family had the water.

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So it's really hard going to take and that's why.

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So that's like the project for Ryan is come together.

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The community here because like the water is in the front, you take it from the beach,

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you know, it's like a new generation water for like all the community because a lot of

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people is needed that water here because it's not too much water.

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Yeah.

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And can you can you explain to to everyone what what the food situation is like there

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right now and how your family you and your family have been helping to feed people during

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this time of lockdown in El Salvador?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like well, like the really bad situation is right now because like the older government

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is putting like too much restriction, you know, and then you have a lot of families

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here, you know, have like too much food, you know, like so that's like the community is

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held a little bit to bring not too much food, but I bring a little bit to the house for

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that's almost 25 families.

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Okay, it's not I know that's families not really is not have really good position, you

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know, here is like family can not have too much money.

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Only one guy from the family is working now the situation because every you can have you

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can go somewhere else.

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So you have to stay all the time in the house.

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So that's why I'm really, you know, have nothing for going to buy supplies, you know, like

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beans, like rice.

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So that's like the community is trying to have a dance families all the time because

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the food is going to be more more more more expensive and more hard to take it because

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like only one people from one families can go to buy all the supplies to la libertad.

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It's a small town here when you can go to buy beans, rice and everything over there.

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But only one people represent one families can go to do in that because everybody had

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to stay in the house, you know, like have two months now is really bad situation here.

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Yeah, and I want people to to meet you and to hear from you because when ocean water

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when we talk about helping indigenous peoples with their water rights, what we mean is friends

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like you and your family who are working people in an area of the country where there is not

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public infrastructure the way that we have it in the United States.

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So for those of you who are listening when my friend Simpapa says that there's one well,

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this well is located at a hotel which is about a quarter of a mile from the main road where

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most of the people in in Palmercito live and so Papa just so everyone understands about

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how many people live in Palmercito.

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It's like 38 families.

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Some families.

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Yeah, some families is like a little bit big one is some families like a little bit small

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one but I think it's like three handy fixing people.

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That's including like kids and everyone that's the only like community from the beach, you

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know, only in Palmercito.

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Yeah, that's just that's just on the that's just on the ocean side of the road.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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So what so what we've done over the last five years is tried to come up with ways to help

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with that water situation and this is an ongoing project and now we're really working on the

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next layer of this about how to distribute water better.

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And we still have some technical issues getting the well filled with water from the ocean.

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But so much of this has been because of our relationship over the last five years and

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enjoying going surfing together and getting to know each other and Paco and Tessie are

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both of our great friends have actually been to our home in San Clemente twice.

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And I know that Adam and Julie Watts and and myself, Adam and Julie Watts have now invited

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you to their home in San Clemente.

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And we're hoping that you can you can come and be with us soon as soon as these travel

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restrictions get lifted.

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But so much of what has happened has come out of out of relationship, out of surfing

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together and you know, we're just thankful for for you, brother.

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And I just am honored that we get to be your friend and help help in a genuine way.

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So yeah, so you're a wonderful guy and a wonderful person there in the community.

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And are there any ways that that we can help right now with the water and the food situation

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while COVID-19 is happening?

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Yeah, that's like coming really hard right now because you have like the second level.

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So it's coming like the other level, you know, so it's going to be more difficult to take

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the food to the water on the stuff.

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So it's going to be more hard right now.

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So I thank you guys for you have the community all the time.

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I really appreciate that you guys have the amazing heart.

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And then you help all the time the community.

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The community is loving you guys.

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It's loving.

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Well, you guys.

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Well, we love you guys.

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Plus, you're plus you're so much fun to surf with.

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So it's great getting in the water with you.

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And yeah, we're just honored to just to help in any way that we can.

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If anybody wants to to give towards helping with food, that's something that you can do

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it at Oceanwater.com.

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And if you'll just make a little note, food or water for Palmar Cedar, we'll earmark

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that and our advisory team will make sure those funds get to get to some Papa and his

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family so that they can serve.

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There's a video on our website that we just posted some Papa and his family on Monday

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this week, two days ago, made two hundred and sixteen handmade tamales and hand delivered

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those to low income people that those thirty eight families, they went and distributed

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those tamales to those to those people.

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So what's what's what's inspiring about what's inspiring about you is that you are literally

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feeding and helping get water to all thirty eight of those families right now.

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OK, nice.

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I feel like come to you know, like what is probably it is like the more hard here because

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you know, like it's really hard to take like fresh water for drinking.

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It's like the back situation for like the community.

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You guys have a lot to make and do and more.

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Also talk a little bit about about what you want to start doing on on Monday nights at

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your home after the the restrictions get lifted where you can meet again.

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Do you want to tell them about how you're you're planning to have some of those?

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Oh, yeah.

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Tell them about.

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Well, I that's a small project because I never doing something like that.

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And then Ryan, the pastor and the other pastor is doing you can do and you can do it.

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It's push me to do and I say, OK, let's do it.

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And that's my other project to help like all the guys get served by me together all the

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time, you know, to my house, to to raining a little bit by the body.

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You know, like it's more roomy and by the all the all the people from here, you know,

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you need to talk to them a little bit from the top.

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So from everything.

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So that's like the project is coming when it's finished.

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Everything here.

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I had a little bit scared to do it.

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I tried.

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I going to do it.

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Yeah, that's that's how we all feel.

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So just to provide some context for everybody, here's our friend who we've gotten to know

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over the last five years through through surfing and genuine friendship, who is now in this

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moment helping provide all the water and all the food for all 38 families in Palmar Ceto.

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And when their restrictions are lifted, are going to have him over to his home on on Monday

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nights for food and some time in God's word together.

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And you have no idea just just how inspiring that is to me and that you that you don't

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have to be a professional.

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You don't have to call yourself anything.

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You can just go and go love the community.

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You can go and have people over to your home and have food and study God's word and be

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yourself and allow God to use to use all that.

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And that's a beautiful thing.

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And we're honored to be your friend.

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Thank you.

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I'm a really, really feel like when you call me a man because I feel like that you guys

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is from my family too.

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It's like that's for that five years I know you guys you guys like a family from the

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city now.

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But my citrus your second home from everybody.

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Thank you.

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Well, we might I know myself and a lot of the guys that have been going down there feel

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that way.

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And also, San Clemente and you come and you can be in our home.

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And so we can't we can't wait to have you there.

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We can't wait to have you here with us and and I'd like to I'd like to call you again

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in a few weeks.

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I think it's very, very important for people that are going to hear this to keep hearing

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from you brother.

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And we love you.

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And we just we're just inspired by everything you and your family are doing.

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So thank you for your time, man.

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Do you have anything else you want to say?

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Yeah, thank you for calling all the time.

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God bless you guys.

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God bless you brother.

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We love you and thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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See you now.

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I'm so far away.