So last Friday and Saturday we did the stove projects with a Haitin family in the community. It was really fun, although a lot of work. I was glad there were 8 of us and a couple of extra hands on deck to do it. The guy who taught us how to do it has made more than 120 stoves already. He was trained a couple years ago by a Peace Corps volunteer and is still using the grant money the volunteer brought in to construct stoves in his community. I'll explain more in the pictures that follow. Oh, papi, there's some special ceramic pieces that they make here in the country that are required for them so we might have to be creative! But we could probably fashion them out of clay.
Mixing cement for the blocks.
Yuli, the expert, laying in the first blocks.
Some of the kiddos where we were working.
Kevin and Juan cutting rebar.
Andrea and I mixing up the mud.
Mark, Yeni, and Cliff applying clay to one of the ceramic burners so we can put it in place in the stove.
The Dona is on the right and her neighbor is in the front and then all of us hard working trainees and others.
The finished product
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