Our first day of real work - installing wood stoves.

Today we installed four new wood stoves in homes in the remote village of El Mango, Guatemala.  These stoves make a difference in many ways, including:
1. Using MUCH less increasingly scarce wood for cooking
2. Producing much less smoke in the homes,   Many children and adults have serious lung diseases specifically from the smoke.
3. The stoves have cool surfaces, saving children from serious burns.

First - the pre-stove cooking method:

Smoke, live cools, very inefficient.

We rip out the old stove (if needed) and in about an hour build and install a new safe, efficient wood stove.

First, the base:

Then the firebox: 

 Then the work area:

 The heating chamber:

 A stove pipe to move the smoke out of the house:

 And above the roof:

 Last the cooking surface:

 Now the lady of the house builds the first fire:

 And she cooks some tortillas with her family:  (Can you guess which ones our team shaped?)