The Value of a Plastic Chair

Look closely at this chair. (If you click on the picture, you will get a close-up.) This chair is owned by the family's whose house we visited in the neighborhood of Managua known as Carlos Fonseca. The chair is made of plastic, the kind you would buy at Walmart for a few dollars. If it broke in two, you'd probably throw it out. Right?

But it is valuable enough to this family that when it broke into two piece they carefully sewed it back together. (Look closely and you can see the thread.)