Anita

Anita goes to our church and is a very friendly, loving person. She also cooks the beans and rice for us on the days we serve hot food at the dump. One day last week, Marc took the big pots over to Anita's house so she could cook the beans and rice the next day. As Marc arrived, Anita was finishing building another wood burning stove. She was packing that mud and forming it just the way she wanted it. She told Marc she was building the second stove so she could cook the beans and rice at the same time.

In the picture above, the stove with the pot on it is the new one. That is not our pot. The pots in which Anita cooks beans and rice for us are much larger than that. The days we serve beans and rice at the dump, Anita starts cooking at 3:00 in the morning. Ugh! We are able to pick up the food at 9:30. At least she doesn't try to cook beans in one hour like someone we all know and love.

She starts cooking when it is still dark. She cooks about 45 pounds of beans and 45 pounds of rice. She stands over hot wood burning stoves for hours and we pay her 300 lempira or about $15.00. And she says that is too much. I can assure you that is not too much.

Terri