By Nancy Wynne | co-founder and treasurer, GHA
You may have read in our reports over the last 18 months that GHA has made a real commitment to build in a sustainable, earth-healthy manner. Towards that end we have been building homes of bajareque....wattle and daub. These are beautiful structures that are stable and we are proud of our advances. Still to be mastered, though, are easy-to-maintain earthen floors. Floors just take a lot of abuse and need constant cleaning and care. In our last full home build, our 31st, we experimented with an earth and lime floor but it dried with too many fissures and we have had to replace it with cement. As durable as cement is, it's manufacture is onerous to the atmosphere. We will continue our quest.
This particular fundraiser to which you have contributed funds floors in homes that are already sufficient, save the floors. These are in addition to the bajareque homes we build from scratch. The need for floors in the town of San Pablo la Laguna is seemingly inexhaustible and your donations have improved the health and comfort of many families.
If you feel compelled, help us continue our work. Donate. Or better yet: sponsor a floor AND come to Guatemala and build it along with us.
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