Family living in abandoned hospital in Puerto Rico
In the episode “Family living in abandoned hospital in Puerto Rico,” The Fence Podcast shifts beyond fencing business talk to spotlight a powerful on-the-ground outreach effort. The discussion follows a team of volunteers and missionaries from California as they deliver food and encouragement to families living inside an abandoned hospital in Puerto Rico. Through Spanish and English exchanges, the episode paints a vivid picture of residents who have endured years of hardship, including people who were born there and have lived in the building for decades after the facility was shut down and left vacant. What makes the episode memorable is its human focus: a simple food distribution becomes a reminder of how basic needs, dignity, and community support intersect. The volunteers describe how they pass supplies through windows and across floors, meet residents where they are, and return month after month. For fence and gate contractors, the takeaway is a broader lesson in service mindset—showing up consistently, helping neighbors, and building trust in communities that need practical support. It’s a moving story of compassion, resilience, and the impact of steady outreach.
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(360 words)Hola, aquí te trajimos cositas.
Puerto many abandon a little bit where some of the people weren't able to actually make it over to the place where we were given food away. Buen día. Buen día. Ellos son los misioneros que vinieron de California y te van a tomar fotos para que veas que no te estamos. Ellos fueron los que se vagaron de ahí. Okay. Dios te bendiga. Gracias. I was telling you this is where we're going to be going and actually some of these people. Um when we were here a little bit earlier. We brought back some food. So we're going to show you how we give them the food inside the hospital. Some people there floor.
Drop some stuff from a from the second floor and grab the food. They don't go down. And they trying to take kick them out. Kick them out from the from that side.
Okay. ¿Cuánto han estado ahí? Tiempos años. Yo nací ahí. Ellos los personas. Yo tengo 74. Las personas que viven. Ah. Un par de años. ¿Cuánto? Como un par de años. Un par de años. El gobierno lo tranca y ellos lo abren.
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Se llama tricoche. Valentín tricoche. Hola, [grito] buen día. Come. Ven, tira la soga. La canasta.
Que esto muchos años.
Aquí te trajimos cositas y tenemos misioneros que vinieron de California a visitarnos y nos están firmando todo esto para que sepamos que estamos ayudando. Amén. Gracias. Llévate esos dos adelante. Sí. con calma.
Puer unit you can see people here to the people need people a lot of people need around the island and the mountain they need to the mountain sometimes they in wooden in wooden houses with Gracias, buencho. Nos vemos, mamá. Dios te bendiga. Y nos vemos la próximo mes. Sabes que venimos todos los meses. Okay. Okay. Dios los bendiga. Okay. Pues ese es el este es el lo que hacemos todos los días. ¿Fuiste allá? No fuiste. Vete allá. Vente con nosotros. His mom used to work here and served Puerto Rico for many, many, many decades before it came, it went to an abandoned building.
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