Stacey has been cooking on a little borrowed
table with a 2 burner propane stove on top for almost 2 years. The time came to make the step up. Our home improvements for this year are a
basic concrete kitchen counter we made ourselves with a few blocks and concrete
and…. an oven! It’s a 4 burner propane
with a small oven underneath! Since then
we have enjoyed cakes, brownies, cookies, transparent pie, quiche, baked
chicken, pizza, and much more! Our diet
has changed!
As always, with the purpose of
demonstrating Asset Based Community Development Stacey is now in business. With a little sign out front she now sells
cakes/bread to the village. Two
assets/resources she brings to the table are the knowledge of baking and now
the material necessity of the oven. She
continues to give classes to small groups of teenage girls for them to learn
and in the hope to eventually turn the ¨mico-business¨ over to them.
Perhaps you would be surprised that
what you consider a “poor” village that has a hard enough time getting the
meals on the table could buy a cake.
Since birthday gifts are non-existent a food like tamales or cake is
about the only way these families do celebrate birthdays or special occasions
like Mother’s Day. Stacey cranked out 4
cakes on Mother’s day. It’s also
something several people/families can pitch in and enjoy together. It turns out sharing a cake is a great and
special joy for these people. One of the
first things the girls from the youth group shared they wanted to learn was how
to bake. You never know what you’re end
up using in life, thank Momma Reeder for teaching Stacey baking skills!
Between eating & selling the
vegetables from the garden, small meat production with rabbits, our chickens
laying eggs and fattening up, and now selling the cakes we are making strides
to model sustainable practices in our life and find our way to make a small
income on our own. What we make from
veggies and cakes is nothing through U.S. eyes and will never pay for
insurance/etc. but by rural Honduran standards, it’s something.
