Doors

We visited the small village of San Pedro to see village housing. Notice the metal front doors to these tiny homesteads. (One family has a wooden door.) Each property is about 50 x 20 feet. The house inside the metal door consists of two rooms made of pressed concrete board. The backyard is the kitchen, with a wood-burning brick oven the size of a buffet cabinet.  There is no running water. Instead, there are community water spigots here and there. And there is a BIG community laundry area where the women meet and socialize while they do their laundry. No one is complaining. The family that owns the house we visited is fortunate. They have a permanent concrete base under their house. That means that they own the property. Many families do not own their property, or can't prove that they do, and their concrete is in small squares that they can move if someone contests their right to be there.