Feb 6,2011 Today was the first day of building stoves; we broke into 4 groups with 3 masons. The day started with breakfast just down the road from our hotel, a variety of foods were offered from pancakes to fried chicken. What wasn’t eaten we packed up and it was given to the families where we were building stoves, they were very grateful for what they received. Jim, Dana and I were working in a very small room with a new mason Onesima, he was very efficient and knew what he was doing. The family we built for was very young, a mother Estephanie who was 19 years old with a young son Salvador who was 18 months and her husband who was 22, once the stove was build we had a picture taken with them
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