I don't know what she's doing.
How are you?
Hey, Mitch!
Dina!
One time, one lady called me to her house.
We went to her house.
When I went in, I felt the smoke.
And I saw the little kid lighting on the floor next to the fire.
Looking backwards and remembering that my grandmother lost her two first kids.
Except for my mom.
One baby died on the way to the hospital.
The other one died from an asthma attack.
I was seeing all of this pattern in our work.
My mother has good cooking skills and how my mom has five kids and my grandmother can only have one.
And so my answer was the cooking skills.
I'm happy and I'm grateful.
Because I've served myself a lot.
Because now I'm going to cook my tamales, my almuerzo.
But once I'm going to cook...
You know what?
I'm going to cook my tamales.
I'm going to cook my tamales.
But once I'm going to cook my tamales.
I'm going to cook my tamales.
I'm going to cook my tamales.
Thank God, I love it.
That's the plan and the soup we need.
Thank God, once I'm going to cook my tamales.
We don't need to be Ebihac, only
we need a little bit of work.
We won't have to go before the day when we need to cook.
It was tasty, no problems.
We focus on the health of the women, and so the first thing that we do is building the cooking stuff.
It's going to be more time, more freedom for women to invest their time in something else.
I want to study, but what happens is that my father didn't have the capacity to give,
and also my mother supported me to study, but since the year I left school I was learning to cook.
When the Spaniards forced us to isolate ourselves and we went from being kings to slaves,
they prohibited us from talking about our culture, our cosmovision.
We couldn't express what our way of life was.
So we started to weave our thoughts, our ideas in fabrics.
I think everybody should in Guatemala specifically be proud of who we are,
because even though people live in the city and don't wear traditional clothing,
recognize that we come from a great culture, the Mayan culture,
and the past was great in astronomers, they are philosophers,
and then we come from a Mayan culture who a lot of scientists these days are looking of that knowledge,
and that is something that we need to be proud of.
First, we need to understand that as indigenous women we still receive discrimination.
This causes negative messages in our minds, in our hearts, in our spirit.
So the Pishán project comes to reinforce that part of our culture.
It comes to reinforce and say, let's grow up weaving.
It's not the same as when someone else comes to you and says,
how beautiful is your dress, how beautiful is your clothes, it's like a awakening.
Wow, it has value, my work.
With the little I'm earning, I can have what I want.
We are a feminist organization, we are an organization that values women's rights,
but we also believe that we are a complement to men, and men are also our complement.
Being a woman in Guatemala is being a strong, brave, intelligent, free woman.
Thank you.
