Sucassaire lives 10 minutes by walking through muddy streets and trails from the lab. One room house he shares with three adult relatives is actually a shack, window-less corrugated iron he bought 7 years ago. It is one of thousands of similar houses scattered on the hillside. The niece cooked dinner on a portable gas burner. Although it was summer, the beds were filled with blankets; the house has no heating and the previous night the snow fell. "We just cover up very well," Sucasaire said. The family uses the nearby stinking public facilities as a bathroom. Drinking water has to be bought and it's very expensive, Sucasaire said.
Sucassaire anaishi dakika 10 kwa kutembea kwenye mitaa yenye matope na njia kutoka kwa maabara. Chumba kimoja cha nyumba anachoishi na jamaa watatu wazima kwa kweli ni kibanda, mabati yasiyo na madirisha aliyonunua miaka 7 iliyopita. Ni moja ya maelfu ya nyumba zinazofanana zilizotawanyika kwenye mlima. Mpwa alipika chakula cha jioni kwenye kichomea gesi kinachobebeka. Ingawa ilikuwa majira ya joto, vitanda vilijaa blanketi; nyumba haina joto na usiku uliopita theluji ilianguka. "Tunaficha vizuri sana," Sucasaire alisema. Familia hutumia vifaa vya umma vilivyo karibu kama bafuni. Maji ya kunywa lazima yanunuliwe na ni ghali sana, Sucasaire alisema.