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My name is Ana Alanís Palacio,

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I’m an olive farmer in Taltal,

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in the Antofagasta region, Chile.

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My name is Eustaquia Araya, I’m a farmer.

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Being a female entrepreneur
here in Chile is difficult,

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we’re not yet considered credible.

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For women, it’s more difficult to start a business,

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we’re often at a disadvantage with respect to men.

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It’s as if men are competent and we’re not,

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so women have to make twice the effort

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and we must be very persistent
in order to reach our goals.

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Here we have literally made the desert bloom.

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Now our valley is green
and with plenty of olive trees.

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The olive production business
began life in the El Hueso valley

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after an economic crisis here in Taltal.

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The regional government started to assign resources

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so that the municipality could be self-sufficient

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and produce its own food.

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In 2020 we formed a small cooperative

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consisting of ten women and one man.

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Enel Green Power has helped us
a lot because now,

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in comparison to the artisanal process
we used before,

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we have switched to a semi-industrial system,

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and this helps us to reduce the working hours

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and to have better production.

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We have better productivity
in terms of working hours because,

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if it used to take 12 hours to process 100 kilos,

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now we can do it in two hours.

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Before we had to depend on other people
for our olive harvest,

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but now we can to work at our own pace

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and harvest when the time is right.

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This helps us to obtain a quality product,

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with improved characteristics.

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Believing in yourself,
believing in what you want,

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having a vision for the future

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and having faith in the fact
that women can always do it.