Rick & Patti Kingswood… our best friends in Sarnia for many years, (before kids; our oldest is now 26) came to visit and participate in the work of the Samaritan Foundation last month. Was it for a slice of Jane’s lemon pie, this time made from freshly squeezed limes? Reminiscent of the times when we first got to know each other and the fact that I served lemon pie each time …. it was the one dessert I made that was guaranteed to turn out well. 
(Showing the homes ready for the roof tops in villa Paraiso.)
While in Los Algodones, Rick who has a job that every young boy dreams of… a train engineer…saw a piece of rail being put to use in an entirely different way.
This man earns a living by making carbon stoves out of recycled metal. After cutting the forms from old washing machines or other metals, he makes the bowl by pounding it with a machete into a cone shape on a section of steel rail. 
His ingenuity is amazing. I guess necessity is the motherhood of invention and voila! ….a finished carbon stove, an item used by the majority of the poor who cannot afford a gas cook top stove. 
An uphill challenge in villa Esperanza.
Sunday afternoon stroll on the Malecon, close to the port of Puerto Plata.
(Showing the homes ready for the roof tops in villa Paraiso.)While in Los Algodones, Rick who has a job that every young boy dreams of… a train engineer…saw a piece of rail being put to use in an entirely different way.
This man earns a living by making carbon stoves out of recycled metal. After cutting the forms from old washing machines or other metals, he makes the bowl by pounding it with a machete into a cone shape on a section of steel rail. His ingenuity is amazing. I guess necessity is the motherhood of invention and voila! ….a finished carbon stove, an item used by the majority of the poor who cannot afford a gas cook top stove. An uphill challenge in villa Esperanza.Sunday afternoon stroll on the Malecon, close to the port of Puerto Plata.
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