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Jiron
La
Mar, picture of the street with moto taxi
The houses have
one or two floors. The pavement has heavy damages
and the footpath / sidewalk also. At the right
side there is no footpath / sidewalk at all.
In many families a moto taxi is the only income
they have.
One has to know how the urban development in South
"America" functions, or in reality does not
function. first there is a hut, then there are
some huts and a wild footpath. Then are built
little houses of stones which have only a ground
floor. Then the wild footpath becomes a country
road. The state or the government are not
organizing anything. In the next 10 years it can
be that current, water and telephone will be
installed. Often people of the outer quarters have
no telephone, also no cement floor and are living
with direct contact to the Earth. Then a bath room
is built. When a new row of houses is built up the
inhabitants have toe think about to construct a
new road. When there is no luck all has to be
payed by oneself. By this there are whole quarters
in Ayacucho without one single paved street, and
on these sandy streets are bus lines. When it's
raining the buses bear the mud of the sweat
country roads into the center of the town which
normally is clean more or less...
So, South "America" functions right the other way
than Europe: In Europe is a plan first to build up
a quarter with streets which are fixed already on
the plan, and then the houses are built and
rented. In South "America" first are built the
huts, then the houses, and at last the streets.
When there is no luck all house owners have to pay
for the street their selves...
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Jiron
La
Mar 425, old house front, missing window panes
The color to paint
a house front again costs. When the family hardly
has any income the house front has the last
priority. Also window panes of the terrace door
are missing. The boy of the family has broken the
window panes with a football, and the window panes
in the Sierra are very expensive and will be
replaced at best in winter.
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Jiron
La
Mar 425, stairs open air outdoors
By the stairs open
air can be avoided a trapdoor. The rain in
Ayacucho can be very heavy, so the stairs outdoors
of the house is the safest method that the roof
gets no damage. By this a breakthrough by the roof
can be avoided and also a construction on the
roof. And as a result of the stairs outdoors there
is a new slot under the stairs to deposit things.
The roof itself will be the floor for another
floor later.
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Jiron
La
Mar 425, washbasin and toilet open air outdoors on
the roof
The toilet and the shower only have a fabric
curtain, the shower only has cold water if
functions. Households where the father is absent
much time have special problems for repairs because
women have no emancipation at all in Peru concerning
handicrafts. A shower which is not working or a
toilet which is not working is not working until the
husband comes back. Here for example a tube was
missing for the water case of the toilet, and there
was missing a sealing ring for the shower. By this
the toilet had to be handled with a bucket, and the
shower was also a bucket, and a big water bucket.
Persons which have to got on the roof during a
rain have to pass the stairs in the rain. The
householder placed the bathroom in the first floor
because the drain will be better then.
And: There is not always water. The big water
buckets have always to be filled with water for
handling the toilet otherwise one is not prepared
for times when the water tap is dry. I was glad I
had at least a functioning shower in the hostel,
but also only cold water, the warm water did not
function, or there was only given a cold shower
with the room...
Later, when sometimes is saved enough money, will
be built the next floor of the house. Whilst the
tenants have to be satisfied with an open air
toilet and an open air washing facility on the
roof. This is not the only house in Ayacucho where
one brushes the teeth open air...
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Cock
and
hen in the backyard, and a football game
A neighbor has
hens and a cock which is calling up all the
neighbors since four o'clock. The rural population
is accustomed to the cock since four o'clock. A
big part of the population of Ayacucho begins at
four o'clock with their preparations and begin to
work at half past five, for Europeans
unimaginable.
In the background young men are playing a football
game in the courtyard. Football is an important
diversion in the life of the population of South
"America", because sports with snow do not exist
because there is hardly snow, and all sports with
an expensive equipment have no chance in the
population...
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Backyard
with
cock, hen and black pigs, and a football game
In a part of his
garden the neighbor also has black pigs which eat
his drops and give meat. This animal husbandry in
the garden is no exception. In Cusco I also could
see sheep in a part of a garden in a little
stable.
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Toilet
of
the neighbor without curtain with corrugated iron
roof
The corrugated iron roof is absolutely typical for
rear buildings in Peru.
The Peruvians have a very natural relationship to
the toilet, but also very careless. A toilet open
air outdoors in a backyard is no exception in Peru
but can be seen often, in the desert climate of Lima
even in hostels and hospices. To urinate is called
"number 1" (span. "número uno") and the defecation
is called "number 2" ("número 2"). The noises are
absolutely socially acceptable but not heard when
people is speaking or TV is running...
The toilet papers with the rests of number 2 are
folded and collected in a little basket and given to
the garbage collection / refuse collection also with
the argument that the tube system should be kept
cleaned.
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Washing
clothes
on the roof, Pamela
Only a few
Peruvians in the countryside have a washing
machine. Or when they have any washing machine
they save current and although wash by hand.
Clothes hanging outdoors is drying quickly with
the Peruvian sun.
The women say that the clothes washed by hand is
softer and the colors keep longer than laundry
washed with a laundry machine...
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Washing
clothes
on the roof, Pamela and Shirley 01
The women loose
much time with washing, at least four hours a
week. But the children learn to wash their own
clothes with five years and get accustomed to it.
The develop a certain pride on the washing their
clothes by hand. It seems to be also a kind of
balance of fitness which is working like a machine
and naturally. So many women cannot imagine a life
without the cult to "wash their clothes by hand"
any more.
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Washing
the
clothes on the roof, Pamela and Shirley 02
Practically whole Ayacucho is washing their clothes
by hand with a huge waste of time, soap and water.
During two weeks of stay in Ayacucho I could not
find one single laundry. After my return to Lima my
clothes were washed in a laundry...
Shirley did not want to be taken with the face.
Washing the clothes should not be this photogenic
also when she likes to do it.
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