While the Lundquist family was here on vacation, we put them to work! Bob and Zach helped build a stove for a local family. We found a family who had three young kids and were cooking over an open fire. Their new smokeless stove will keep the smoke from their stove out of the kids lungs.
Their dad, Ramón is mixing the cement for us...
...and us, puzzling over how we're going to begin this project...
With the base finished, we're ready to get started with the innards. The pieces on the inside are handcrafted from local clay by a woman in Santiago.
Filling in the base with rocks and cement which will keep the stove insulated. It's really quite energy efficient, hardly any heat will escape the finished stove.
Everybody got in on the party! Lynn, of course, doing the hard work!
Beginning to put the pieces together...
The pieces are molded together with local red clay. A messy but fun job!
Making sure everything is just so.
The finishing touch - a tomato paste can.
One week later, getting ready to cook beans and rice!
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