PRESENT DAY TYPICAL POOR FAMILY HOME IN THE HIGH ANDES:
• Walls made from adobe mud and straw or long grass
• Grass roof
• Cooking done on small open fire inside the house
• Dirt floor
• Small animals live inside the home with the people
• Dishes, pots, and pans are stored on the floor
• Food is stored on the floor
• Families sleep on the dirt floor or hammock
• No potable water in the home, necessitating being carried by hand to the home
• No glass or plastic windows, thus no light
• Cloth or boards for door
• Animals in yard walking in mud and manure
• Home full of deadly smoke from the cooking fire, and causing poisonous creosote to cover walls and ceilings
• Clothes piled on the floor
• No toilet, just a pit someplace in the yard
• No sidewalk or paths around the home
A NEW HEALTH HOME:
• Walls/ceiling plastered – covers deadly creosote from open cooking fires in the home
• Cement tile roof made in our tile factory
• A smokeless stove that vents outside the home
• Cement + mud flooring
• Animals out of the house/yard and into pens or stables
• Food in cabinets that they build
• Clothes hung in small closets that they build
• Dishes, pots & pans in cupboards that they build
• Skylight in the ceiling of kitchen/living room
• 6mm plastic film in windows
• A door at the entrance of the house
• Crushed rocks for sidewalk
• Latrine built for bathroom
• Clean water nearer to houses
• Local plants growing in the yard
• Platform bed built to get family off the floor With a New Health Home the death rate is reduced up to 75% in the first two years after the transformation from the old home to the new home.
Cost $250 - $350
