A young boys carries home firewood which will be used for cooking, and mostly to cook tortillas made from home-grown corn, and ground fresh in the neighborhood.

Bananas grow right behind the work site.  Francis and Karla say El Salvador has about 10 different kinds of bananas.  We bought bananas from a guy in a pick-up truck who passed the work site.  They were 24 for $1.

Evoer, the young man for whom we are building the house.  He will live in it with his mother, Teresa, pictured in Zack's earlier blog.  Evoer worked today on the house with us and is required to put in 500 hours of sweat equity on what will eventually be his own home.  Most Habitat homeowners also have to pay off a low-interest mortgage.