Housing Improvements – Many people (67%) live in inadequate housing with unsafe and unhealthy conditions and insufficient living space that affects learning and health. Houses are often pieced together with found wooden planks and have scrap metal roofs as well as dirt floors. Some simple improvements like cement floors, new roofs, and water filters can greatly lower common but serious illnesses like respiratory infections, pneumonia, and diarrhea which can have very serious consequences for infants and small children. Clean-burning, fuel-efficient wood stoves can reduce respiratory diseases, one of the leading causes of death of women in Guatemala.