Update from MAD HQ: Azul Wasi Boys Home

The objective is this project is to build enough rooms to be able to house up to 30 boys, a kitchen, storage space for food and more showers / toilets. One of the objectives for the home is to become self-sustainable, and therefore they plan to build a traditional oven so the boys can learn to bake their own bread, a greenhouse to produce more vegetables all year round (they already have a small garden), build a chicken coop / guinea pig hutches (guinea pig being one of the staple food in rural Peru) and dig a fish pond.

At present they are finishing work on what is to be the kitchen, built out of traditional adobe (dried mud bricks). The focus of this project will be to build an extension to this part of the building, also out of adobe, adding two rooms. One of these will provide much-needed storage space where food can be stocked rather than left out in the rain under plastic sheeting; in the other, a traditional clay oven will be built, enabling the home to bake their own bread and sell it, providing a regular income and teaching the kids new skills that they will be able to use later in life.