Folks in the village get their drinking water from a well in the center of the village, reasonably clean thanks to a European NGO that dug the well a couple of years ago (though Rachel boils and filters the water before drinking.) People do their washing in a little pool near the huts where the ducks and other animals go to swim/drink. People (and of course the animals) use nearby areas as a toilet, so it is pretty dirty. Rachel washes clothes there, crouched over a bucket, and often Maman’i'Linda or the girls help her. So Rachel decided to ask Papani’Linda to build two makeshift tables, one at the right height for adults and another at child-height near the little pool. He spent a day in the forest gathering materials and another day lashing the bamboo to make the tables and Rachel paid him the going rate (a couple of dollars) when he was done. So now they don’t have to crouch over the wash buckets–at least as long as the tables last. And Maman’i'Linda has a little added cash for the household and her husband has–four cigarettes, his share of the pay, to be smoked over several days, cigarettes being very rare indeed.