PIB is absolutely right, as PIBs usually are.
So in the Name of Christ, get smart and think of small propane stoves.
Fogones can be bought at a lot of the country stores but they are so out of date that I really do not believe they are worth the effort.
Propane is subsidized by the government, it is relatively cheap, it will give added prestige to your houses, and it will reduce costs, since cooking can be indoors. You don't think even poor Dominicans cook over a fire without shelter, do you?
There is a perceived value added to the use of propane, also.
How are you going to build these houses? Self help? Or are you going to put them up and then raffel off the houses to the bishop's "most worthy 50" ??
And that is Guayabal, not 'bol' , not that it matters. Please, please rethink this plan....
And let me tell you the story of Barrio Gregorio Luperon in Puerto Plata.
When word got out that the cesspool at the head of Puerto Plata Bay was going to be converted into one of President Balaguer's urban renewal projects, every one of the inhabitants sent to the countryside for their relatives to come for a visit.
Of course, the visit was timed to coincide with the census of people that 'needed' houses.. Smart, huh?
People were moved out, houses were built with indoor plumbing, running water and electricity. Roads were paved. What happened?
A lot of the men got rid of the old wives and got new ones for the new house.
In many, many houses the johns were taken out and sold for cash to local hardware/building supplies dealers, since, after all, the hole served just as well.
Many new houses of ill repute opened up to service the new population just in from the countryside.
these and other stories are true....
Housing does not cure poverty, education does. I applaud your efforts, but I'd sure like to see a school mentioned in the project.
HB, the grizzled vetern of development projects....