The Container of Food has NOT Arrived

We received word that the container of food which Kids Against Hunger sent (for us to distribute in Lempira) was due to arrive here this past Saturday. So, we made sure that we had sufficient space in our storage area/carport to receive approximately 20 pallets of boxes.


As Saturday morning passed with no sign of the truck, Allen called the shipping company, and was told that there had not been enough trucks to send our container that day, and it would be coming on Monday instead.

Yesterday the truck arrived! Russell and a crew of guys came home from the construction site to unload it. The back of the truck was opened to reveal . . . construction supplies and medical equipment?!?!?!?


It wasn't our container. Sigh.

There is a medical clinic in our area, and it was their container of stuff. I don't know how the paperwork got confused with ours, but fortunately it was a fairly easy task to get the truck and container moved from our house to their clinic.

The shipper says that they still have our container, but that it has not yet been released, which may mean that it has not successfully passed through customs, or that all fees have not yet been paid. We have a government agency helping us with this, so the process is not in our hands at this point. Although we had been told by the agency that everything had been completed to release the container, the shipper doesn't seem to agree. Of course, yesterday was a holiday (as were the two previous Mondays!), so we were unable to talk with anyone in the government to find out what is causing the delay. Hopefully this morning we will be able to get this sorted out!