Another Home Visit

While we are on Home Visits, here is another one for you to think about and compare with conditions back home.




(Left and Right - these photos are taken inside the room used as a kitchen by the family. The family lives in another mudbrick building behind the kitchen. Peru's Challenge is looking to see what can be done to supply a flue for the cooking for this family) .

The actual support is going to a little girl, but as she is part of a larger family, support needs to go to the family. In some cases it is necessary for several people to combine support for the family.


(Right - this is the actual kitchen, and the doorway leading into the smoke filled kitchen.)

(Left - the family lives in a small room behind the kitchen)

(Right - the small communal family building)

(Left - inside the small building the room has been divided into 2 segments, basically to separate the sleeping and eating areas. This shot is taken from the sleeping area looking over the dividing wall into the eating area)

(Right - the dividing wall and the two beds - for sleeping six people)

(Left - the wall in the neating area,and a bench and table, containingmost of their food and possessions. Of course there is no fridge, and so food must be of a storable nature - eg tinned, or UHT milk, fresh fruit, flour, rice, etc )

(Right - the table in the eating area. This is where the children will do their home work.But they have no chairs to sit on, and generally only a single electric light bulb in the middle of the room - no reading lamps!)



(Left - the dividing wall from the eating side - notice the large pile of potatos in the corner - did you know that there are over 3000 varieties of potatos!! And many of them are used in Peru.)