Although the home has a kitchen with modern appliances, there was often no money to buy propane and they resorted to the norm in rural Guatemala of cooking over wood fires. Thanks to the Wells of Hope people, they now have a lean-to at the rear of the building which has 3 wood burning stoves. Here you can see 2 pots of soup being prepared for the evening meal.
This is their supply of firewood for the stoves. There is not much support among local people but some people do help. This seems to be cutoffs from one of the local sawmills that someone has brought out to Los Pinos. The metal container behind the wood is a steel silo for storing corn, used for their staple of tortillas.
This is also at the rear of the main building and is the main laundry facility. Keep in mind that there are usually between 100 and 125 girls and 6 or 8 sisters living here, then think about how much laundry is done - by hand, in the open air and hung out to dry.
The girls still live in close proximity with little or no privacy. The younger ones have little or no storage space to call their own - often just plastic bags hung on the end of their bed to hold their few possessions.
Some of the older girls have lockers at the end of the hall, but I would guess that there are only 30 of these at the most to share between all the girls.
