Costa Rica - Homes, Not Slums
(Stock Number: 01006DVD)
| Marta Trejos is Executive Director of "CEFEMINA" - the Feminist Information and Action Center, and Coordinator of the "Women and the Environment" movement in Central America. Marta led an extraordinary experiment with a group of women under the slogan: "Homes, not slums". The purpose of this movement was to prevent anymore "shanty-towns" from being erected, and to build a more improved way of housing with a school and a dispensary nearby. Mothers also wanted their children to play in safety and they wanted jobs. In every aspect of this tremendous task, women undertook the construction of their own homes; from the organization of volunteers to managing the supply of materials. Produced by Judithe Bizot.
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