Santa Cruz, her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and their four-year-old son are among the 100 families who live in Sacllo, part of the Calca district and province, one of the 13 provinces that make up the southern Andes department of Cuzco, whose capital of the same name is known worldwide for the cultural and archaeological heritage of the Inca empire. "Rural families have the right to decent housing that provides them with quality of life and guarantees their health, safety, recreation and the means to feed themselves.” - Berta Tito We coughed a lot and our eyes stung and it bothered us a lot,” she told IPS during a long telephone conversation from her village.
“I used to have a wood-burning stove without a chimney, and the smoke filled the house. CREDIT: Janet Nina/IPSĬUZCO, Peru, (IPS) - Adopting a “healthy housing” approach is improving the living conditions of rural Peruvian women like Martina Santa Cruz, a 34-year-old farmer who lives with her husband and two children in the village of Sacllo, 2,959 meters above sea level in the Andes highlands municipality of Calca. But her husband is about to paint it, because they like to keep everything clean and tidy. She is disappointed because a wall was stained black when she recently left something on the fire for too long. Martina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with her remodeled kitchen where a skylight was created to let in sunlight and a chimney has been installed to extract smoke from the stove where she cooks most of the family meals.
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