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Panambizinho Village - Mato Grosso do Sul
In Brazil, in the whole world, the problem with wood-burning stoves
is that one out of every three people in the world,
uses wood for cooking.
In Brazil, we have almost 10 million stoves.
So for many years now, we have been doing work,
research with quilombola (Afro-descendant) communities mainly,
but also with natives and fishermen . . .
And then we brought it here
—everything we’ve learned— to help prepare people,
so they’ll know how to build the stove,
matching their way of doing things,
exchanging a service, being a partner, being supportive.
We show how to make the stove, using a wood mockup,
Maurício Lins Aroucha Technical Advisor UNDP / PCSAN
which looks like the actual stove.
Once we’re ready to make them,
we will also work with local materials.
The UNDP will, through this joint project,
buy and pass it on to the families.
Just like a child plays with a doll,
which is small,
that is, the child plays as if the doll were a person.
Here we will play with this little
stove to make a big one later.
Very well.
We are now bringing to the community a technology
that is widely used in the northeast,
these geoagriecological stoves.
Cleber Rodrigo Puttkamer Technical Advisor UNDP / PCSAN
These stoves, thanks to their particular construction,
maintain the temperature; they optimize, improve the
use of wood in the community.
This is a community where
the land in the old days was used to produce soybean,
corn, major crops in general,
and now we are recovering its native vegetation.
But this process is slow; it is drawn out,
and meanwhile the community is suffering from a lack of firewood.
It is a very serious problem here in the community.
I am talking about women having to walk six or seven kilometers,
two or three times a week in order to bring firewood
so they can cook their food.
This stove is a very simple thing.
It is made of bricks, with clay, sand and water.
That is why we say it’s geoagriecological.
Geo is a word that means minerals.
So we take all these materials such as minerals from nature,
and it is agroecological because it reduces consumption a lot.
People hardly use any firewood;
they use material that can’t be sold as firewood
but that can be used to get this stove working.
And also because people will attend workshops that we will hold,
next June -- four workshops,
and in each workshop, the people will make two stoves
and we’ll leave another eight stoves ready
and material for each family, more than 65 families,
so that each household can have a stove.
It decreases the health risks
associated with the common, rustic, wood-burning stove.
Renata Oliveira Costa Technical Coordinator UNDP / PCSAN
Respiratory problems, also back problems,
because the women have a higher surface for cooking.
And, consequently, the children,
because children are always around their mother
or aunt or grandmother while they are cooking.
Once each stove is finished, in the homes equipped with this stove,
never again will a woman
be born already condemned to die with respiratory problems,
with eye problems … because smoke from stoves
is the eighth leading cause of death worldwide.
And it's cool that this project also came here to the village, this stove.
People suffer a lot having to collect firewood from more than 10 kilometers away from home,
carrying it on their back to bring it here.
Leide da Silva Pedro Kaiowá Nursery Keeper
Now it’ll be good because this wood stove will help many people.
And what I see is that it is
people helping people to get that stove
that we need so much.
It’s great to have this wood stove for my mother,
because she needs it more than we do.
Mainly because she has to fetch firewood from far away.
There are times when she gets sick while she’s gone
and sometimes she has to stay away from home.
Fabiana Gonçalves Kaiowá from the Panambizinho Village
She spends the whole day out looking for firewood.
We used clay and water and sand,
made this mixture, this mix here,
the smoke will go through here,
it’ll go this way and then through here.
That's why we make a straight or cut here,
leave a passage here, make this triangle,
make another passage here,
and as it burns, the hot air will run here,
travel underneath the oven’s slab
that these guys are finishing; it’s almost done--
and it’ll go out that hole, cross the wall, through the wall and out the chimney.
It will heat the slab, and there will always be a lot of smoke.
Smoke comes through here and out here.
The smoke will do this.
- The smoke goes this way... - Around here, right?
This way.
It’ll take a bit of time; it does this...
- Takes some time here, right? - Right. There’s the chimney.
And here the hot air is trapped.
There’s where you cook.
So the smoke doesn’t go inside the house anymore,
and here’s where you put the pot -- or the pan.
- You put it right here? - Right. The pan sits right here.
We put these pieces of brick here
to give the slab better support
because it will have to hold the pan to make bread,
cakes, a roast chicken, things like that.
Next we will make a mound of sand,
up to a certain height
and then we’ll use that container there
to make the shape of the arch, which is the shape of the oven.
So, the oven base is already set,
as well as the base of the stove.
All that's left now is to start working on closing off the stove.
I'm very happy now that
they’ve made my stove.
You finished and you’ve built this,
so I am very happy; now I have my stove.
I suffer a lot when it rains, to get firewood.
When they told me, I don’t know what year it was,
that they would build me a stove, I thought it was another type of stove.
But it was not like my stove; it was different.
They told me: you won’t suffer anymore when cooking,
and your pot will stay black.
Firewood is very difficult to get,
because the settlers razed everything; they even took out the roots.
They didn’t leave anything; they just left the land that way.
Rosalina Concianza Kaiowá from the Panambizinho Village
So we only use kindling for the fire,
only dry plants.
Firewood is very difficult to find.
Elza Pedro Kaiowá from the Panambizinho Village
I am very happy. They built my stove; I’ve already cooked,
I made beans; they even made a shelter for it.
I am happy; they also made one for my daughter.
I am also happy they made a home for me,
now I am very happy.
I'll be able to make anything in it; I'll cook chicha,
I'll make our culture.
We eat corn pudding; I eat flour.
My mother fed me with corn pudding, flour,
cooked fish; my father raised me that way.
Geoagriecological Stoves PCSAN
UNDP FAO
ILO PAHO
UNICEF
MDG-F (Fund for the achievement of the MDGs) Brazilian Government
UNDP staff:
Carlos Ferreira A. Castro Ione Santos do Nascimento
Renata Oliveira Costa Jerusa Cariaga Alves
Maria Leda Vieira de Sousa Cleber Rodrigo Puttkamer
Stove Construction Team
Maurício Lins Aroucha António Pereira da Silva (Tiico)
Abel Severino Aquino Silvinho Aquino Jorge
Samuel Vera Enivaldo Reginaldo
Ana Maria Vieira da Silva
A video by
ASCURI - Cultural Association of Indigenous Filmmakers
in partnership with
UNDP - United Nations Development Program
Photography
Gilmar Galache Abrisio Silva Pedro
Editing Gilmar Galache
Translation Fábio Concianza
Support
Native Municipal School Pa'y Chiquito Chiquito Pedro
Agendha - Consultancy and Management of Nature, Human Development
and Agroecology Studies
Ministry of the Environment
Department of Extraction and Sustainable Rural Development
Department for the Fight against Desertification
Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger
Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security
Superintendent of IBAMA Pernambuco
FUNAI’s Regional Coordination in Dourados (MS)
DISEI / MS - Indigenous Health Special District Mato Grosso do Sul
Music
Cícero "Laia Laia" Roberto Sá "Mandigno"
Quinteto Armorial "Revoada"