COCINERAS
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0:06 - 0:09A documentary of David Panxa Fabregas
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0:11 - 0:15Based on an idea by Elena Carrillo, Jon de la Rica
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1:11 - 1:19[music]
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1:40 - 1:46My name is Maria Paola Duarte Exebarria and I live in the district of La Prusia.
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1:46 - 1:52So I feel good with my family, my husband and my daughter and one I'm expecting, right?
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1:57 - 2:05Here in La Prusia there are a lot of families that have, suffer from asthma, they are alergic to smoke,
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2:19 - 2:23Hello, my name is Marta Alguera, I am asmathic.
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2:28 - 2:32And I'm gonna reduce this illness I have, of the crisis of asthma, the asthma
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2:32 - 2:38bothers me with the smoke, every time I cooked that smoke expanded everywere and that affected me.
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2:45 - 2:53I am Yader, she is my wife Maria Isabel, I have three kids: Angel, Yajaira and Jorge.
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2:56 - 2:59For my kids, for my husband, for my family and my neighbors too,
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3:00 - 3:06because the smoke that extends everywhere gets the houses of neighbors and as it bothers us, so it bothers them.
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3:07 - 3:12And one says how come this heat? One thinks that we harm the environment.
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3:13 - 3:16Wood is not chopped, better it's planted.
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3:30 - 3:34Hello my name is Vilma del Carmen Castillo,
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3:35 - 3:39I live in La Prusia, a community from the Municipality of Granada.
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3:39 - 3:44The little girl suffers from neumonia, they forbidden smoke, dust.
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3:45 - 3:47She is 5 years old.
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3:48 - 3:55Smoke affects the girl, and deforestation, thus the environment.
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3:56 - 3:58[music]
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4:22 - 4:33During the day, as homemaker, I broom the courtyard, tidy the rooms, wash the clothes, cook;
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4:33 - 4:37after that my girls come from school, I give them lunch:
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4:42 - 4:50rice, beens, sometimes I give them meat, and sometimes cream with rice.
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4:56 - 5:06My husband gets the firewood from the forest, from the trees, when the trees have dry branches then he cuts them.
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5:07 - 5:14We go on weekends when he has time, we go on Saturdays to search for firewood and we get two big bunches of firewood.
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5:25 - 5:31I cook in this kitchen of three rocks and firewood.
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5:35 - 5:43Sometimes my oldest girl cooks, I was worried that the pot falls on her.
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5:43 - 5:50The smoke affects the girl and me, not because doctors haven't tell me as smoke affects me.
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5:50 - 5:55And the deforestation, the environment, we have to protect it.
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6:06 - 6:13The Fogones (stove) project originates from an environmental perspective.
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6:13 - 6:19As the project takes shape we realize, talking with the community,
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6:19 - 6:24that for them the important issue is their health in regards to the smoke.
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6:33 - 6:42The cooking conditions are without chimney at open-fire, and the women spend many hours in front of that fire,
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6:42 - 6:47so obviously the smoke originates a lot of illnesses and long-term problems.
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7:01 - 7:05The investment made in a home, where does it go to?.
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7:05 - 7:08what started being an enviromental problem, ended up being a social problem.
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7:42 - 7:49Well, the idea was to make a project of cheap, very cheap improved stove.
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7:51 - 7:58We 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,
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7:58 - 8:00then we thought that what is most economic than the soil which is free.
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8:00 - 8:05It costs 700 pesos, so for me it's cheap
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8:08 - 8:20so 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?
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9:04 - 9:09The idea was that people themselves build the stove.
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9:09 - 9:14To learn to make the adobe, we had to take a course.
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9:15 - 9:20To, to learn mixture of...to make adobe.
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9:20 - 9:26In regards to adobe, I had never had this experience, I had idea of seeing it, but...
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9:26 - 9:32experience of practicing with my hands, make a work like that never before.
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9:34 - 9:40We always found with the challenge that...that they didn't feel capable due to the insecurity they felt.
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9:40 - 9:42They said: I can't, I can't, I can't.
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9:42 - 9:48I was desperate because she told us what we had to do for the test of raw, so,
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9:48 - 9:55that if the soil had enough clay or little clay, the mixture, making things easy, we made things right.
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9:56 - 10:00There were many people that when I was about to make the model, so...
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10:00 - 10:05they helped because with what we have made was not enough.
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10:05 - 10:19Thus 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.
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10:19 - 10:29We made it among many hands, not only us. We put many hands to build it, so I feel proud to tell it.
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10:29 - 10:36Sometimes, well, in fact we are not accustomed to work as a team, and...
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10:36 - 10:42in the stove project, well, we learned to work as a team with the community.
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11:29 - 11:39So the purpose with the participative design was that this stove, in addition to be effective, it adapts to...
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11:39 - 11:43to what people was accustomed to, right?
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11:43 - 11:51So they can cook as they used to do but in a healthier way and more economic in firewood.
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11:52 - 11:55We built a pilot stove, and then they came and said
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11:55 - 11:57“no, we don't like this and that”
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11:57 - 12:04then, we said well, it has to be changed, we have to change how to adapt the stove to the needs they have.
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12:04 - 12:08I was one with the opinion of making the hole a little bit bigger.
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12:08 - 12:18And where the cooked brick has to be placed, and we also said to change it for this plate that the stove currently has.
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12:30 - 12:33They don't have economic provision, so,
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12:33 - 12:40somehow the husband had to approve the investment of that very little money, because it was USD 25.
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12:45 - 12:52I don't think that these women's husbands are 100% aware of the benefits of this stove.
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12:52 - 12:55Because it is not a reality they have to live.
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12:56 - 13:00As it was something of the women, husbands didn't care.
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13:09 - 13:16There was more support of women than men. But indeed there were men, but there were more women.
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13:16 - 13:23He thought that he was interested, that it was a beautiful idea, but he said he would support me and...
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13:23 - 13:28few times he helped me, like two times he helped me to riddle the soil, nothing else.
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13:28 - 13:31But he didn't help on building it up.
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13:40 - 13:47Here in Nicaragua it is seen that women have to cook, she has to be in the house.
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13:47 - 13:55I think it is an idea coming from machism and because it is also somenthing we are interested in,
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13:55 - 13:59to me as a women and as a homewife, right?
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14:14 - 14:18And well, I think that is the way for the project to last in time.
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14:18 - 14:22the most important thing is not the number of stoves we have built but having,
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14:22 - 14:29somehow, planted the seed to make these women understand that they can cook in a different way.
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14:29 - 14:38If any neighbor or some acquaitance would tell me I need you to help me build a stove,
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14:38 - 14:41well, I am willing to help.
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14:41 - 14:47Yes, I feel proud of making it happen, because as I told you I learned things I didn't know and
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14:47 - 14:56I have the option and opportunity in case another family or....or someone else who wants to have a stove,
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14:56 - 15:00I have the knowledge and know how to help them build it.
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15:00 - 15:08At last I have it today, I feel happy and blissful, I am not cooking on the floor anymore,
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15:08 - 15:11I'm going to cook with my new kitchen.
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15:12 - 15:15So we improve our health.
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15:15 - 15:22The ceiling is not damaged, the smoke goes upwards, no...
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15:22 - 15:26the kids are not affected at all.
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15:26 - 15:32and no smoke, the house doesn't look smoked as I have it.
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15:32 - 15:40I am very happy with my stove, I think that everything it has as it is, it is good,
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15:40 - 15:45it's according to my ideas, with my needs.
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15:45 - 15:49They researched about how it can be made so that
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15:49 - 15:53we overcome the difficulties that we had with our kitchens and
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15:53 - 15:57they thought about us, well, about our health.
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15:57 - 16:09I thought it was the same, something temporary, only to know the way we live...how we make it, our live, our, our living.
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16:09 - 16:12Not...never thought it was something so real.
- Title:
- COCINERAS
- Description:
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A documentary by David Panxa Fàbregas
with Paola Duarte, Isabel Ortega, Vilma del Castillo and Marta AlgueraA rural community with lack of resources where a group of women decided to change their homes and make their dream become into reality. A project of improved adobe stoves at which future users become the main actors of change. A process told from four protagonists women perspective. A documentary that approaches a transversal issue from genre perspective. A touching story full of hope.
Proyecto Fogones Mejorados de Adobe (Improved Adobe Stoves Project) - Elena Carrillo y Jon de la Rica -colectivo zompopo
- Video Language:
- Spanish
MONICA GUERRERO edited English subtitles for COCINERAS | ||
MONICA GUERRERO edited English subtitles for COCINERAS | ||
MONICA GUERRERO edited English subtitles for COCINERAS | ||
MONICA GUERRERO edited English subtitles for COCINERAS |