(A-48) Status: Not Sponsored
Needs: new house, water filter, full mattress, Onil stove, food
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Maria shows us where the rain comes into the house when it's storming.
During the rainy season the water soaks everything inside, filling her kitchen, drowning her bed.
Because of this she had to get rid of her mattress, and now sleeps on just the boards.
She can't cook when it rains, because it puts out the fire beneath her plancha, a wood-burning griddle.
There is water everywhere, but nothing to drink. She drinks the dirty water from the tap.
Her belly is distended and her head hurts from probable parasites.
But health, at present, is less a concern than showing us where the walls have rotted in their joints, where the water comes through.
Her own joints are a little old, and she holds her knees while she walks up the steps made of rocks and dirt, which are also eroding.
They form a canyon around some leaky tubing, where water sprays constantly.
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