RE: [Leica] El Corcho

["James Harrison" <leicajh@earthlink.net>]

Tina-Angels come in all sizes...some have had their knees replaced so they
can still serve..you are the best..jh


> [Original Message]
> From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Date: 8/25/2003 9:03:58 PM
> Subject: [Leica] El Corcho
>
> 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
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