{"id":1882,"date":"2015-10-13T09:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T09:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/favelaorganica.com\/novo\/?page_id=1882"},"modified":"2017-08-17T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:15:57","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/favelaorganica.com.br\/english\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

About us<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Photo: Nelson Mello<\/em><\/h5>\n

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Regina Tchelly was born in Serraria, countryside of Paraiba (Northeastern Brazil), in 4th August 1981. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2001. \u201cAs soon as I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, I started to work as domestic maid. I used to see in the street markets and in my own community a big amount of food being wasted. And back there in Paraiba our culture is to get the most we can out of each product\u201d, says Regina Tchelly, who has always loved to cook.<\/p>\n

She started grabbing food parts that would be wasted and soon the marketers started to separate the usually discarded items for her. She would take them to her house, where she improvised recipes such as \u201ccolorful peels and stems rice\u201d, \u201cbanana peel brownies\u201d and \u201cbroccoli stem quiche\u201d; recipes which were enhanced throughout time. Self-taught, the paraiabana, who were raised watching her parents and neighbors get the most out of every product in the kitchen, spent years literally cooking the idea to use this gift of revolutionize food to do something more powerful for her community.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day I decided to take this project out of my dreams and concretize it. I gathered some mothers of the community, we raised together R$140,00 and I executed my first workshop. Since then, I haven\u2019t stopped!\u201d, remembers Regina Tchelly. According to Regina Tchelly, the huge importance of the project is being able to change the perspective and show new flavors to people. Besides doing a positive action for nature, for our money, our health and to the whole world. \u201cKitchen is the environment for exchange and I think we are losing this nowadays. In our workshops we bring back the will to be and to cook together, gathering people\u2026 It is a great atmosphere, with plenty of laugh.<\/p>\n

Favela Organica\u2019s kitchen is magic: we can arrive there stressed, but when the workshop starts our day changes completely. It is an unexplainable sensation seeing the smile in people\u2019s faces when they rediscover food they usually throw away. My mission is to give life to this food people usually ignore, by recreating and innovating recipes and by including these elements in our day-to-day life.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve simply gathered my experience and my will to be a different cook. And, honestly, I expected all this recognition. After all, what is made with love and for everyone\u2019s benefit and welfare, works out!\u201d, she proudly concludes.<\/p>\n

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Our team<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Eliane Almeida<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Business manager. Partner of the project since the beginning of 2015 and responsible for the administrative part. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Carolina Movilla<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Law student, Human Rights researcher and fascinated by liberating education as the only path towards a more organic world. Partner of the project since 2013. Workshop facilitator, translator and responsible for social media. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Danielle Souza <\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Biologist and specialist in Environmental Education. Defends the construction of urban food gardens connected to environmental justice and healthy eating. Workshop facilitator and partner of the project since 2013. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Mateus Ghiglione <\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Business student, fascinated by the environment as a whole and unique organism. Defends a organically sustained world, where we can walk together to develop and evolve without harming nothing and no one. Workshop facilitator, horticultor and partner of the project since 2013. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Janice Figueiredo <\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Activist and researcher of new social and economic models. Partner of the project since 2013, working in projects\u2019 elaboration and development. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Julia Sant'Anna<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Architect and Urbanist, researcher of non-hegemonic interpretations of space, who believes in a collective construction of democratic cities. Workshop facilitator and urbanist architect of the project, partner since 2013. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Nathalia Marangoni<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Journalist, passionate about the third sector, traveling and vegetarian food. Favela Org\u00e2nica’s digital media manager since 2014.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Maria Eduarda Freitas <\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
High school student, aiming for and building paths for a new perspective of the world and of the environment. Partner of the project since 2011.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Anitta Oliveira<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Nurse technician and an incredible and heartful cook. Responsible for the buffets and partner of the project since 2011.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Vanessa Herv\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
Nutritionist, always attentive to health \u2013 of the food, of the environment, of the producers and of the consumers! Committed to sowing a conscious, intuitive, safe, economic and zero-waste way of eating for everyone. Workshop facilitator and partner of the project since 2012.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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