Living Acommodations in the Village

We have heard that people have some questions about our life here, so we are going to start some blog posts attempting to answer these questions. If you have specific questions please leave a comment and we'd love to answer.

What are your living conditions? 
We are temporarily living in a little one room, loft-type apartment. There is a pavilion on Love's Door's base where tutoring, church, and all our team dinners in the village occur. There is a kitchen in the pavilion, and above the kitchen is the little room where we are staying. We have a bed with a mosquito net, two little tables, a chair, and a dresser in our room.

The kitchen below our room is the team kitchen, which we also use because our room does not have one. The rest of the team is in the village Wednesday through Sunday, so we have to share the kitchen during those days. There is no refrigerator or oven in the team kitchen but we do have a propane two-burner stove that we use. We also do have solar panels that are able to provide a couple of lights and power to charge cordless tools and phones.

Here is a picture of the pavilion. Our room is up top and set back in the back third of the pavilion above the kitchen. The rest of the pavilion is open with benches to allow for the many other uses.

There is no bathroom in our room, so we use the team dual chambered composting pit latrine (sounds fancy, but it is kind of like an outhouse where the waste composts for 6 months after the pit is full and then we take it out to use on fruit trees that we are trying to grow). The toilet is surrounded by bamboo reeds, so we hang up a sign that says "in use" to let people know it is occupied.

Please send more questions our way!