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Pueblo Viejo is mainly a neighborhood of indigenous people who migrate from rural communities to the urban zones. During the rainy season, between December and March, the community experiences many floods. It’s because of this, city authorities have declared the community an “Emergency Zone” and they refuse to support the local people with essential public investments. With a team of local volunteers and the people from the neighborhood we have created a comfortable small place where we could work with the children and the young people. Mainly we help students with their homework, we realize cultural artistic and sports activities, workshops, trainings. We have a basic mobile cinema infrastructures to run a community cinema and also the children realize a monthly news program as well as documentaries about their local culture. We have witnessed firsthand the power of these cultural centers as places of pride, learning and preservation for local people historically deprived of meaningful outlets for cultural expression. Such expression is essential for indigenous communities, both as an engine of development and necessary feature of social welfare.

Our idea is to beautify the neighborhood and to connect it to the public square, thus creating a touristic urban circuit. This transformation will give Pueblo Viejo’s young people an opportunity to become tourist guides and ambassadors. In this way we can help the community to be sustainable and offer their lovely handcrafts and talented skills to the larger community.

In the neighborhood there are 5 natural water springs which are abandoned and it would be a perfect opportunity for the community to start maintaining the springs. This could also be a perfect opportunity for single mothers with low income to make a cooperative and filter the water thus having an income.

We probably would need around 30 filters to start the project

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