SARITA KITCHEN COMPLETED PROJECT
before
As part of the initiative to help improve the Sarita community in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala a safe and healthy way of providing meals for the children who attend the Sarita school was needed. Therefore, La Misión created the Sarita School Kitchen Project.
- Conditions
- Wood structure
- Aluminum roof
- One room structure
- Located behind the school building
- Amenities
- Pots sitting on the ground
- Two metal “grills” over a open wood fire
- A pila (concrete wash basin) with a hose run faucet
- Health Issues
- Pests and parasites from unclean water and dirt floors
- Respiratory distress and disease
after
- Conditions
- Concrete structure, counters, and floor
- Wood latticed and lockable, bi-fold windows
- Aluminum roof
- One room structure
- Located in front of the school building
- Amenities
- Wooden dry storage shelves for keeping pots off the floor
- Two Onil wood burning stoves, one with a flat top and one for large boiling pots, with smoke pipes that vent out of the roof
- A dual sink with gravity fed, filtered water from a water tank
- Electrical lights and outlets
- Two outer sinks with running water for those receiving food to wash their hands
- Health Issues
- More sanitary conditions
- Filtered water
- Concrete floors
- Smoke pipes vented through the roof
- More sanitary conditions
This new kitchen will not only allow La Misión to serve food to nourish the bodies of the students, but it will allow La Mision the opportunity to show hope and God’s love. All the glory of what this kitchen means to the rural community of Sarita, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala goes to God and the amazing things He will provide through it.