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