0:00:06.048,0:00:08.818 A documentary of David Panxa Fabregas 0:00:11.321,0:00:15.080 Based on an idea by Elena Carrillo, Jon de la Rica 0:01:10.635,0:01:18.703 [music] 0:01:40.190,0:01:45.889 My name is Maria Paola Duarte Exebarria and I live in the district of La Prusia. 0:01:45.920,0:01:51.766 So I feel good with my family, my husband and my daughter and one I'm expecting, right?[br] 0:01:56.594,0:02:04.768 Here in La Prusia there are a lot of families that have, suffer from asthma, they are alergic to smoke, 0:02:19.184,0:02:22.715 Hello, my name is Marta Alguera, I am asmathic. 0:02:27.865,0:02:31.539 And I'm gonna reduce this illness I have, of the crisis of asthma, the asthma 0:02:31.539,0:02:38.447 bothers me with the smoke, every time I cooked that smoke expanded everywere and that affected me.[br] 0:02:45.489,0:02:52.752 I am Yader, she is my wife Maria Isabel, I have three kids: Angel, Yajaira and Jorge. 0:02:55.642,0:02:59.350 For my kids, for my husband, for my family and my neighbors too, 0:02:59.983,0:03:06.088 because the smoke that extends everywhere gets the houses of neighbors and as it bothers us, so it bothers them. 0:03:06.519,0:03:11.581 And one says how come this heat? One thinks that we harm the environment. 0:03:13.476,0:03:16.341 Wood is not chopped, better it's planted.[br] 0:03:29.876,0:03:33.960 Hello my name is Vilma del Carmen Castillo, 0:03:34.622,0:03:38.789 I live in La Prusia, a community from the Municipality of Granada. 0:03:39.220,0:03:44.081 The little girl suffers from neumonia, they forbidden smoke, dust. 0:03:44.836,0:03:47.443 She is 5 years old. [br] 0:03:48.435,0:03:54.720 Smoke affects the girl, and deforestation, thus the environment. 0:03:55.546,0:03:58.202 [music] 0:04:22.014,0:04:32.602 During the day, as homemaker, I broom the courtyard, tidy the rooms, wash the clothes, cook; 0:04:32.602,0:04:37.373 after that my girls come from school, I give them lunch: 0:04:41.577,0:04:50.279 rice, beens, sometimes I give them meat, and sometimes cream with rice.[br] 0:04:55.906,0:05:06.416 My husband gets the firewood from the forest, from the trees, when the trees have dry branches then he cuts them. 0:05:06.754,0:05:13.889 We go on weekends when he has time, we go on Saturdays to search for firewood and we get two big bunches of firewood.[br] 0:05:25.380,0:05:30.705 I cook in this kitchen of three rocks and firewood.[br] 0:05:34.829,0:05:42.862 Sometimes my oldest girl cooks, I was worried that the pot falls on her. 0:05:42.862,0:05:50.012 The smoke affects the girl and me, not because doctors haven't tell me as smoke affects me. 0:05:50.012,0:05:54.798 And the deforestation, the environment, we have to protect it.[br] 0:06:06.021,0:06:13.126 The Fogones (stove) project originates from an environmental perspective. 0:06:13.126,0:06:18.756 As the project takes shape we realize, talking with the community, 0:06:18.756,0:06:23.761 that for them the important issue is their health in regards to the smoke.[br] 0:06:33.009,0:06:41.646 The cooking conditions are without chimney at open-fire, and the women spend many hours in front of that fire, 0:06:41.646,0:06:46.727 so obviously the smoke originates a lot of illnesses and long-term problems.[br] 0:07:01.318,0:07:04.682 The investment made in a home, where does it go to?. 0:07:04.682,0:07:08.155 what started being an enviromental problem, ended up being a social problem.[br] 0:07:42.208,0:07:48.815 Well, the idea was to make a project of cheap, very cheap improved stove. 0:07:51.402,0:07:57.576 We thought that we wanted it to be a project opened to the biggest number of people and for that it had to be vey economic, 0:07:57.576,0:07:59.765 then we thought that what is most economic than the soil which is free.[br] 0:07:59.888,0:08:05.328 It costs 700 pesos, so for me it's cheap 0:08:07.834,0:08:19.817 so we set as a goal that it cost less than USD 40 which is the price of a buddle, which is something any family has in their house, right?[br] 0:09:04.390,0:09:08.987 The idea was that people themselves build the stove.[br] 0:09:08.987,0:09:14.162 To learn to make the adobe, we had to take a course. 0:09:15.219,0:09:20.155 To, to learn mixture of...to make adobe. 0:09:20.155,0:09:25.686 In regards to adobe, I had never had this experience, I had idea of seeing it, but... 0:09:25.686,0:09:32.052 experience of practicing with my hands, make a work like that never before. 0:09:33.847,0:09:40.073 We always found with the challenge that...that they didn't feel capable due to the insecurity they felt. 0:09:40.073,0:09:42.162 They said: I can't, I can't, I can't.[br] 0:09:42.162,0:09:48.391 I was desperate because she told us what we had to do for the test of raw, so, 0:09:48.391,0:09:54.631 that if the soil had enough clay or little clay, the mixture, making things easy, we made things right.[br] 0:09:55.775,0:10:00.342 There were many people that when I was about to make the model, so... 0:10:00.342,0:10:05.206 they helped because with what we have made was not enough. 0:10:05.206,0:10:18.979 Thus I appreciate those people who came over to...when I needed it, because the same way they helped me, when the opportunity comes, I will help them.[br] 0:10:19.048,0:10:28.615 We made it among many hands, not only us. We put many hands to build it, so I feel proud to tell it. 0:10:29.416,0:10:36.387 Sometimes, well, in fact we are not accustomed to work as a team, and... 0:10:36.387,0:10:42.272 in the stove project, well, we learned to work as a team with the community. 0:11:28.600,0:11:38.830 So the purpose with the participative design was that this stove, in addition to be effective, it adapts to... 0:11:38.830,0:11:42.535 to what people was accustomed to, right? 0:11:42.535,0:11:51.338 So they can cook as they used to do but in a healthier way and more economic in firewood. 0:11:51.800,0:11:54.602 We built a pilot stove, and then they came and said [br] 0:11:54.602,0:11:57.165 “no, we don't like this and that” 0:11:57.165,0:12:03.736 then, we said well, it has to be changed, we have to change how to adapt the stove to the needs they have. 0:12:03.736,0:12:08.300 I was one with the opinion of making the hole a little bit bigger. 0:12:08.300,0:12:17.626 And where the cooked brick has to be placed, and we also said to change it for this plate that the stove currently has.[br] 0:12:30.409,0:12:33.236 They don't have economic provision, so, 0:12:33.236,0:12:39.910 somehow the husband had to approve the investment of that very little money, because it was USD 25. 0:12:44.893,0:12:51.553 I don't think that these women's husbands are 100% aware of the benefits of this stove. 0:12:51.806,0:12:55.014 Because it is not a reality they have to live. 0:12:56.202,0:12:59.649 As it was something of the women, husbands didn't care.[br] 0:13:08.951,0:13:15.585 There was more support of women than men. But indeed there were men, but there were more women. 0:13:15.585,0:13:23.216 He thought that he was interested, that it was a beautiful idea, but he said he would support me and... 0:13:23.216,0:13:27.608 few times he helped me, like two times he helped me to riddle the soil, nothing else. 0:13:27.608,0:13:30.555 But he didn't help on building it up. 0:13:39.569,0:13:47.135 Here in Nicaragua it is seen that women have to cook, she has to be in the house. 0:13:47.135,0:13:55.372 I think it is an idea coming from machism and because it is also somenthing we are interested in, 0:13:55.372,0:13:59.253 to me as a women and as a homewife, right? 0:14:13.574,0:14:17.709 And well, I think that is the way for the project to last in time. 0:14:17.709,0:14:21.912 the most important thing is not the number of stoves we have built but having, 0:14:21.912,0:14:28.798 somehow, planted the seed to make these women understand that they can cook in a different way. 0:14:29.045,0:14:38.307 If any neighbor or some acquaitance would tell me I need you to help me build a stove, 0:14:38.307,0:14:40.775 well, I am willing to help. 0:14:40.775,0:14:46.846 Yes, I feel proud of making it happen, because as I told you I learned things I didn't know and 0:14:46.846,0:14:56.009 I have the option and opportunity in case another family or....or someone else who wants to have a stove, [br] 0:14:56.009,0:14:59.582 I have the knowledge and know how to help them build it. 0:14:59.582,0:15:08.476 At last I have it today, I feel happy and blissful, I am not cooking on the floor anymore, 0:15:08.476,0:15:11.443 I'm going to cook with my new kitchen.[br] 0:15:11.674,0:15:14.897 So we improve our health. 0:15:14.897,0:15:22.435 The ceiling is not damaged, the smoke goes upwards, no... 0:15:22.435,0:15:26.204 the kids are not affected at all. 0:15:26.204,0:15:32.301 and no smoke, the house doesn't look smoked as I have it. 0:15:32.301,0:15:39.836 I am very happy with my stove, I think that everything it has as it is, it is good, 0:15:39.836,0:15:45.069 it's according to my ideas, with my needs. 0:15:45.069,0:15:48.601 They researched about how it can be made so that 0:15:48.601,0:15:52.570 we overcome the difficulties that we had with our kitchens and 0:15:52.570,0:15:57.334 they thought about us, well, about our health.[br] 0:15:57.334,0:16:09.234 I thought it was the same, something temporary, only to know the way we live...how we make it, our live, our, our living. [br] 0:16:09.234,0:16:12.000 Not...never thought it was something so real.