We wrote this update about Darwin and his brother Jarvin in June, 2001:

"Perhaps Jarvin has internalized this experience so much because of his frequent contact with his brother Darwin, whom I’ve written about in past letters.  In the three years that I have known Darwin on the streets, I have never seen him without his glue.  Last week, we ran across Darwin near the national Congress.   Jarvin decided not to wake him as he slept on the concrete sidewalk underneath a hamburger restaurant awning.   When his older brother tried to slip a bag of chips under his shirt, Darwin jumped up suddenly, with the instincts of someone who knows how to avoid street dangers.

Upon recognizing his brother, Darwin slumped back down onto the concrete, put his hands over his eyes and refused to talk with him.  Jarvin begged Darwin to enter one  of the crisis centers in the city and to leave the drugs, but Darwin simply pretended to fall asleep again, without ever saying a word to Jarvin. 

It’s hard to know exactly what these two boys feel about each other, boys who fled their home together before they were old enough to start first grade.  What does Darwin think about when he sees his well-dressed older brother kneel down on the sidewalk to talk with him?  And what conflicting emotions does Jarvin deal with each time he sees his brother wasting away both physically and mentally?

Their relationship certainly has something to do with the reason that Jarvin dedicates so much of himself to the kids in the crisis center.  He may not be able to rescue Darwin, but God can certainly use him mightily in the lives of many other street kids.  And it is easy to see the impact that he is having on the kids in the center.  He recently used his acting skills to teach the boys of the crisis center a skit called "street kids" which they performed very successfully at a local church.