Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUGnuts: I thought you might be interested in a little more information about the community where I stayed this summer. El Corcho is in the mountains in the Lempira district of Honduras, Northwest of the capital about 6 hours by jeep and then 3 hours by foot (in the rainy season when the road is gone). I've put up a photo of the house where I stayed. The first building is the kitchen where I made most of my photos because the one-room house behind it (where the family of 11 sleeps) has no windows!! It is pitch-black dark inside all day except for the light that filters through the wood shingles. This community is unique because all of the 15 or so houses have wood shingled roofs. The pine beetle has killed most of the pines in the area and it is against the law to cut pine trees; therefore, the farmers cannot re-roof their houses. The shingles last about 5 years before they rot in the humidity and they also provide perfect breeding places for the chagas bug, a parasite which causes a fatal heart disease. With the help of Heifer Project International we were able to raise enough money ($1500) to replace all of the wood shingle roofs in the community with tin roofs. The farmers did all of the work themselves to replace the roofs. So these are the last photos of the houses with wood shingle roofs. http://www.leica-gallery.net/tinamanley/image-51063.html Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html