Márquez - A Town where Divine Light Lutheran Congregation Was Born
"Congregation Luz Divina "

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economic situation of the country. Many persons are unemployed or underemployed. Others work informally as sidewalk or door-to-door salespersons or as chatarreros (people that pick up recyclable garbage).

The difficult economic situation causes severe social problems that show up in the increase in delinquency, prostitution and drug addiction. The youth don't see alternatives for their lives. The rupture and the disorganization of the nuclear family is also a consequence of the economic problem. There are many single and abandoned mothers that have to assume the total management and support of their homes. Many children are alone in their houses most of the day because their parents leave for work and don't return until night. Children and old people, many of whom have been abandoned by their family, suffer from a high degree of malnutrition.

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