(9 Oct 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 4 October 2024
1. Karolina González (left) and Victoria Sámano making lunch at Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter and community kitchen
2. Close of González
3. Close of González peeling garlic
4. Garlic being placed in blender with chili
5. Close of González blending sauce
6. Close of Sámano
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Karolina González, kitchen head at Casa Lleca:
"This kitchen is led by trans women. It’s very difficult for us that people see us in a different way, but little by little we are teaching them that we are just like any other person or human being who has the right to get ahead."
8. Various of González seasoning chicken
9. González and Sámano putting chicken in pot
10. Close of stove
11. González tasting chicken
12. González stirring chicken
13. González and Sámano leaving kitchen
14. LGBTQ+ and transgender flag
15. LGBTQ+ shelter next to kitchen
16. Close of board with shelter’s rules
17. People waiting as Casa Lleca to open
18. Various of people having lunch
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Victoria Sámano, founder of Casa Lleca:
"The community kitchen has helped us raise awareness in the neighbourhood, especially among people who come to this kitchen and who had never had any contact with a trans or sexually diverse person before."
20. Worker leaving cup of juice on table
21. Various of González serving food
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Elvia Romero Santiago, retiree:
"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and transgender people — all of them are normal people who must be regarded just like any other human beings that we live among."
23. People queueing for lunch
24. Board with menu
25. Sámano taking orders
STORYLINE:
At an LGBTQ+ shelter in Mexico City, a community kitchen has emerged to provide employment opportunities to transgender women and serve surrounding residents in the area.
The kitchen was born two months ago, after the Casa Lleca shelter received approval from city authorities to open it through a social welfare programme.
Victoria Sámano, a 30-year-old human rights activist, founded Casa Lleca in 2020, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, in an effort to help LGBTQ+ folks and sex workers who were unhoused or at risk of losing their homes.
Seven months ago, she met Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, 36, who came from a culinary background.
Sámano brought up the idea of a community kitchen to González.
Though the kitchen initially began as an idea to serve and employ their community, as soon as it opened, residents in the surrounding neighborhood started to flock in.
González, a native of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, arrived at Casa Lleca seeking refuge and a fresh start as a trans woman.
She had studied cooking in middle and high school, but then dropped out, and after working in a kitchen in Oaxaca, she left for Mexico City to begin her transition.
Once in the capital, she was recommended to a plastic surgeon who gave her faulty breast implants and, after one of them ruptured, he refused to give her a warranty — or operate her again.
That’s when she said her life began to spiral.
When she arrived at Casa Lleca, things began to turn around, and her active involvement in the shelter led Sámano to invite her to head the new kitchen.
Much of the funding for the kitchen came from the women themselves, who purchased appliances, chairs and tables to create an authentic dining experience.
The kitchen cooks lunch for up to 150 people a day, and each full meal they make costs only 11 pesos (about $50 cents).
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