CRAFTS WITH CHRISTIANE

My friend, Christiane scheduled a craft workshop at the school this morning for our 5 teachers.  They were taught some Christmas crafts and in turn will show their students in time for Christmas.  We made decorations for Christmas trees, angels and Santas.  The class was to be for teachers only, but somehow along the line we ended up with 10 of our kids that joined in.  The teachers enjoyed their time, and the kids learned very quickly and were pleased to know they could take their crafts home with them.  Thank you Christiane for a wonderful morning.

SOLAR COOKERS

Our first attempt at parabolic cookers was very interesting.  We were trying to make a gasless cooker that our families could use to cook their meals when they can't afford to buy propane.  Parabolic solar cookers are very efficient and are used all over the world, in Africa and in Haiti.  However conventional parabolic cookers are quite expensive.  The proper parabolic type wasn't possible, so we attempted a makeshift cooker.  The problem is the aluminium is a special one, and we are not able to purchase it here in the Dominican Republic.  You can see in the photos that our water was very hot, but we will need this special aluminium to have it reach boiling point.  We will keep trying!