My teacher, several students, and I went to a small
community about 8 km from Xela to finish the last step in completing the stoves
that the school provided them (mi maestro y cuatro estudiantes y yo fuimos a
comunidad peqeño mas o menos ocho kilometers lejos de Xela y nosotros
terminados paso cuatro y final para construir las estufas de la escuela). To install the door, we marked where the
holes to attach the doors needed to be, then we used a hammer and chisel to
make two holes in the bricks, and then we put the door in place and filled the
holes with a mixture of cement and sand (marcamos donde necesitamos los hoyos
para la puerta y entonces usandos un madrillo y cincel para tajar dos hoyos y
entonces ponimos la puerta en sitio y llenandos los hoyos con una mezcla de
cemento y arena).
It was neat to see the completed stoves, which each had a
combustion chamber much smaller than I originally envisioned when I saw the
stove design. One of the stoves we
worked on was being used, and it was clear that there the small space for the
combustion chamber was filled mostly with burning wood, and therefore there was
not a lot of excess space with gas to be heated, and this part of the design is
probably what makes the stove fairly efficient.
There weren’t really any streets or addresses in this rural
community so we spent a lot of time looking for the houses that had the stoves
from the school. It would be interesting
to learn more about how these types of communities get food, water,
electricity, etc.
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