Videos tagged with "buy"

tortillas.wmv [05:45]
After falling in love with the campesino tortillas of rural nicaragua, we decided to make a video of the entire process, from raw corn to finished tortilla. The mill used is similar to a meat grinder, except that it has two grooved plates that turn against each other to grind the tortillas. We're thinking of buying one and bringing it back home to see if we can replicate the process. Otherwise, you just have to buy Masa flour in the hispanic section of the grocery store. We filmed this in the village of El Jocote in the Teostepe region of Nicaragua. Our host mother, Martha, and host sister, Ivania, showed us some of the finer points of tortilla making. It's my first time editing a video using the free software, and the lighting in the kitchen is very dark, so it's not perfect, but I wanted to capture the secret of the deliciousness of Martha's tortillas
Tags: Nicaragua, tortillas, how, to, make, nixtamalization, lime, el, jocote, comal, process, como, se, hace

uniRSE y La Educación Superior.m2t [02:18]
uniRSE organizo una mesa de trabajo con las autoridades de la Educación Superior en Nicaragua y el sector Empresarial, para analizar la situación actual de las universidades y las empresa, como contribuyen al desarrollo socio económico del pais.
Tags: unirse, vida films nicaragua, daniel torres mejia

Fair to Farmer Direct I Nicaraguan Students [04:00]
We're backing Nicaragua's bright young coffee kids. Coffee education is at the heart of Salt Spring Coffee, only this time we're not talking about cupping notes and varietals -- it's the education of Nicaragua's coffee kids that's got our attention. In Nicaragua families work to live so it's not uncommon for children to start work at a very young age to earn added income for the family, leaving little time for school. This very reality is what makes this group of bright young coffee farm kids so remarkable. Each has been accepted to Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua's capital city. Only the cost of getting a child to Managua is out of reach for a lot of coffee families. It's not uncommon for the average coffee family to experience three-month stretches where their financial resources are limited because of a gap between the coffee growing season and the industry's buying cycle. Needless to say, when putting food on the table year-round is a challenge, sending a child away to university is just not possible. But we no longer want that to be the case. Through Fair to Farmer Direct, our goal is to raise the funds to send prospective students to the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) to complete their chosen post-secondary degrees. And we want your help. Your commitment and contribution to these kids will give them a chance to make their own future, and carve out a new path for a generation of coffee kids in Nicaragua.
Tags: Students, Nicaragua

Fair to Farmer Direct I Nicaraguan Students [04:00]
We're backing Nicaragua's bright young coffee kids. Coffee education is at the heart of Salt Spring Coffee, only this time we're not talking about cupping notes and varietals -- it's the education of Nicaragua's coffee kids that's got our attention. In Nicaragua families work to live so it's not uncommon for children to start work at a very young age to earn added income for the family, leaving little time for school. This very reality is what makes this group of bright young coffee farm kids so remarkable. Each has been accepted to Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua's capital city. Only the cost of getting a child to Managua is out of reach for a lot of coffee families. It's not uncommon for the average coffee family to experience three-month stretches where their financial resources are limited because of a gap between the coffee growing season and the industry's buying cycle. Needless to say, when putting food on the table year-round is a challenge, sending a child away to university is just not possible. But we no longer want that to be the case. Through Fair to Farmer Direct, our goal is to raise the funds to send prospective students to the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) to complete their chosen post-secondary degrees. And we want your help. Your commitment and contribution to these kids will give them a chance to make their own future, and carve out a new path for a generation of coffee kids in Nicaragua.
Tags: Nicaragua, students, coffee kids, Fair to Farmer Direct

Giving buying power back to the women of Soppexcca co-op. [04:04]
Far from the fields and coffee farms, the women of Soppexcca cooperative work long, hard hours sorting coffee beans at the mill. Most walk the road to work, which leaves only a few evening hours to shop for family necessities along their commute. As a result, the women routinely buy food and goods from roadside vendors in small quantities and at high prices - a transaction of circumstance that keeps them in debt. In 2010 with funds from our Fair to Farmer Direct program the women opened a mercado (translation: a market or store) just steps away from the sorting mill. Here, off the streets and in a safe environment the women can buy what they need at a manageable price.
Tags: Nicaragua, Women's, Cooperative