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Semillas en concreto | Laura Marlene Mendoza Romero | TEDxYouth@JesúsMaría


If there is anything that characterizes the
young is that desire for change already
We listened to some papers and we already saw
that all have had to do with the
wishes to do something more to go more
beyond what we are doing
then that is very father is not very
encouraging to hear that more people
are following what they want to
transform this environment
However, many times not
not everyone passes to that level not to that
level of having a very good idea or some
tremendous desire to do something to
really a hill and good has to do
with many things for example that we
tell us to convince you that a
we do not touch that is a matter of
politicians or the government or the
companies or someone with more
influence with more power than us
they convince us that anything that
we are going to be small and not
very significant to make a
true change
However, we should convince ourselves
that action that you or that you or that
I let’s go generate a true
change and good I want you to think about
something that you would like very much
do or something that you would like
transform good
stay with that idea in my case the
environmental issues were always my
always worry the issues of
water shortage pollution to see
that many populations do not have access
to the water like how many of us do
we have it and all that always
worried and took me to study
sciences
in such then when he was already in the
university then I realized that
all those environmental problems that I
she was much bigger is much more
complexes of what I had them
imagined and then that made me
discourage me in a certain way and also
feel even smaller and a
little in a way unable to generate
really instead and it seals having
also that idea of ​​me does not touch me
today I can not do it
but good luckily in the
university during a congress there was a
course of an agricultural method
organic to the biointensive method and I
It served quite a bit because it approached me
different way of doing things
he taught me that there were ways to do
things and that people like me could
generate a good change I do not know if they have
listened to organic farming
organic agriculture really does
it looks a lot like agriculture
traditional is a type of agriculture
that does not generate or that does not use supplies
chemicals and therefore is not dangerous
for us or for ecosystems
so good in this course we
they talked about this not an alternative
of organic agriculture and good started
the course and they started talking to us about
agriculture traditional agriculture
industrialized and they talked to us about the
health effects of the effects on the
environment things that I really already
had studied at the university no longer
I knew there were cancers
related to this type of
agriculture for the inputs it uses
because in the end then we too
we receive waste from those products
So those were things that were not
new to me no I had already
studied already knew about the effect of
this type of farming soil
but that
I had not been approached one by one
alternative they had not told me good
that’s right but it is possible that it is
different
fortunately I found this because and
Fortunately, in addition to finding
more people wanting to do something
different and that’s how we formed
seeds in concrete with the intention
of giving a real alternative should not
move on from that complaint of that identify a
problem to give you a real solution
first the truth is that we did not know
well what we wanted to do or how
we wanted to do it we did not know that
we wanted to do something that we could not
just stay watching what
was happening and but we did not know the
how it had been a whole process to
discover and the coe and the how and until
where are we now not now are we a
social enterprise and really when
we started in this we were already doing
social entrepreneurship without knowing it was
social entrepreneurship does not
in fact it is a concept that arrived
after and and it was a bit funny because
suddenly they made us every time they are
social entrepreneurs and we do
we are going to what is that but if it were father
but good the social entrepreneur is
someone who is initiating an idea a
business but that your idea or your main
approach that resolve solve a
problem to solve a social problem
whether it’s housing economy
education
that’s what a social entrepreneur does
and that’s what we were doing
us because we were offering
an alternative of feeding
Now what we do is give
counseling trainings we install
orchards
We have a product line and we have
worked with schools with homes
with restaurants and well that’s how
like what we do now but not
really move from the idea
where we are now has not been anything
simple
I will not tell you either agency won the
super easy and what father not because no
it has not been easy
more than once I have had the opportunity or
or a reason to leave
we have had economic problems
personal problems or problems of the
organization by which the road is
easy would be by I’m going and better me
He looked for a job that paid me and that
sure every month have x salary no better
I’m going down the path that I’ve been
taught that it turns out that they have loved me
teach what turns out not but
fortunately in these six years of
seeds in particular has not reached
that extreme
fortunately it has been more the wish of
change from doing something that the desire to
go for the easy and it has not been easy
because to begin with I studied
environmental sciences I had no idea
of what it was like to run a business when
I started this I did not know how to make a plan
business or make a statement of results
or something that might seem so simple
how to afford something, not how much is going
to cost your workshop can be something that
nobody was going to tell me and that many
think
Well, what father is an entrepreneur
because then nobody is going to tell you
how to do things nobody has to you
say what time would it get that now go
of iu to fail or how to do things
but that is not easy at all because
then nobody is telling you that
will work or that is the path that
has to follow and means that more than
Once you’re going to make a mistake, more than one
again the chin
If I had said it like that, I think so
were encouraged or that if he did or if
I would have signed a contract now
I would be in these
more or us in anything but good
of those problems or those situations
you also learn a lot and you take the
idea that he will not do it again and
that now rather you’re going to have to
follow another path is not a matter
of a lot of learning and but it is also
a matter of great satisfaction
well to generated a challenge if they have generated
a worrying about many things
that will work for someone not me
I would have to worry and work
for someone I would not have to
worry why you have to pay the
rent of the place or because if you did not pay it
tomorrow I will no longer have internet
then I will not be able to send the
project or any stuff like that
of issues
I would not have to worry
they would be something of someone else, not me
I would have to focus on doing what I
say and already but the satisfactions of
do something that you like to do something
that you are passionate about and that besides nothing else
for you it is for more people
along this road because that’s what
What is it about social entrepreneurship?
also help someone else
also offer an option for someone
more in my case I have suddenly gone to
places and I find someone who
can a talk with us to a
workshop with us and they tell us friend
look at my garden I already have already put this and
I did this and harvested many pumpkins and
so I had to learn to do the
different ways because we have
bored and my children also came in and
my husband and and all do not
then you realize that the garden
it’s nothing else the option of
feed you different one is
but he who looks nice but who
It is also to eat healthier because
maybe they did not like the
not tomatoes but then you cultivated them
Well, you already eat them, and not at all
well first they are not even so
because it cost you and then how do you
cost then you eat them and then
sit as usual too and with
the children also that works very
father not because if he does not like to eat
vegetables then teach to plant them
he says take care of them and he’s going to create a
so father bond that later more
happy he is going to eat it
maybe it sounds bad but it is done to me
I better know where it comes from
food that just limit me and
buy it and then and I just go and the
I buy
I do not know if they watered it with water
grays because it happens or if they put him
chemical inputs and if the person who
he used those supplies he had diseases
in the skin to use them or if he died of
cancer for being in contact with those
products we do not disconnect ourselves so much
of our food we do not know if those
things from that kind of stories are
behind her
that is also what we are dealing with in
seeds in particular because maybe the
people in an agreement at home do not go
to have to feed and forget about
be buying but they are going to have that
aware that what they eat
value it more to value more the
work of a farmer because many
times and I’ve had to listen to people
that they believe that a farmer is like
I do not know if it’s a job for the
they did not study and for those who no longer
they touched another and they had no other
opportunity we forget that the
farmers stands
having that yes we can devote ourselves to
another thing is because a farmer is
producing our food so that
we worry about something else
then that is the satisfaction as of
go see how it is breaking little to
little with these
with these ideas and how are we going
transforming creating community creating
spaces of coexistence since all that
can more than the problems or that
the difficulties that come with being a
entrepreneur or a social entrepreneur and
well with all this I tried to tell you
that idea in which they thought of the
principle that does not stay in just that
but look for ways to make it
reality
there are many ways to get the
practice are not alone there are many
instances that could support the there
many places where they could learn to
do what they want to do
There are ways to cheer up, no, I’m not
saying that they start not because maybe
it’s not what we all want but that
do something that does not stay with the
easy way but go beyond
that transforms and that always the best of
thank you
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