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What is your name?
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Isabel Tejada Lopez.
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What is your work?
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I sell replacement parts which I recycle in order to sell to students and universities.
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Where do you get your parts from?
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Sometimes from people who don't use their devices anymore come to sell them.
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Or we go to get the parts at the stop, to purchase everything that is not being used anymore.
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We take it apart and sell it by parts.
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The magnets also come out of speakers. They buy those for projects.
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And these?
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Those are also magnets.
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There are different kinds of magnets, from the ceramic magnets to neodymium. These are the strongest, they are powerful.
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They come from computers, hard drives, etc.
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How long have you been working here?
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I've been here 17 years.
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Wow. And how did you start?
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I began with my brother-in-law, who arrived in Paruro to work, and brought his brother (my husband).
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One day I came to bring them lunch and I liked the idea of starting to sell the parts myself.
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I liked it, so I sought to make my own money, my own capital, and start selling these parts.
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We used to sell radios before. But now we only take devices apart, you can make more by dismantling.
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Does your husband still work here?
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Yes, he also works with me.
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But you're in charge of the stand?
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Exactly, I'm more alive than him in this business. I keep the business going.
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What work do you prefer?
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I prefer selling the magnets.
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Also dismantling or taking apart, because you discover so many things.
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Before no one ever paid attention to the magnets, and now they use them for projects and different things.
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They make home-made motors.
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Or that train which levitates, the fast train.
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They are also making models with that here.
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Who are your clients?
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Students. All students.
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University students, or from high school, or institutes, or the teachers themselves.
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Do you get people who do it for a hobby?
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Also, but it's mainly students which use it for their school project.
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These?
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These are transformers. So as to produce energy sources.
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TV-speakers. Those are sold for TVs, but when it doesn't work anymore, we break it and take out these magnets.
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And you diagnose it?
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Of course, we try it out. If it doesn't work, then we go straight for the magnet.
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We recycle everything. Everything.
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What is the difference between recycling, repairing and dismantling?
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Repairing is for something that's still good to be put to use.
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Dismantling, that's basically-.
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A radio for example, if you can't find replacement parts,
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you don't repair it, but you dismantle it, and you use the magnets, the transformers, the motors.
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It's all the same.
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If it works, it's good for those who use it.
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If it doesn't work, then we take it apart and sell the parts.
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Why is dismantle as opposed to throwing them away.
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No, how can you throw that away. If the kids use it, to make their school projects...
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Why would you throw it out?
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What has been your experience as a woman here where it's mainly men?
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There are few of us.
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When people come they sometimes ask what are women doing here working?
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But men and women can both work. We're both the same.
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Perhaps they're a bit stronger, but for the rest, it's all the same.
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Is that what you tell people when they ask you?
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No, we all work the same here. That's how things are now.
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Before women would stay at home, but now things are different.
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Now the economy is a bit poorer, and husband and wife must both work to maintain the family.
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That's how things should be.
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Anything else to add?
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No, just the invitation for people to come here, this block is where you'll find all the magnets you need.
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For all kind of projects, all kind of magnets, motors.
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All kind of magnets, squared ones, circular ones.
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This block is where we all sell magnets, motors, anything you can need.
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Thank you.
