Una semana después de mi segunda visita al Bañado Norte en las casas construidas por UTPMP, me tocaba volver a este lugar donde anteriormente ya había caminado. En mis POSTs anteriores "Siguiendo los pasos de Pa'i Oliva en el Bañado Sur" y "Con las Alas Abiertas y el corazón también", había recorrido parte del Bañado Sur, lugar donde UTPMP ahora concretaría su meta para 2010: construir la casa 1000. Lugar hermoso y de no ser por sufrir la marginalidad del pasado, hoy nos damos cuenta que el bañado y la vera del río son lugares benditos para explotar el turismo, una costanera y mejorarla urbanamente. El 19 de diciembre de 2010, con la construcción de la casa 1000, UTPMP Paraguay se situaría así con orgullo cerca de Chile y Argentina que han sobrepasado ya esa barrera anteriormente, y eso impulsa nada más a querer concretar la meta de las siguientes 1000 casas. Culmina así esta parte de mi historia en fotos, donde UTPMP hoy en día permite a 1000 familias tener la oportunidad de un nuevo comienzo. | A week after my second visit to Northern Marsh in houses built by UTPMP, I had to return to this place before that I already walked. In my previous posts "Following the footsteps of Pa'i Oliva in the Bañado Sur" and "With the Wings opened and the heart also" I had traveled part of the South Marsh, where UTPMP now materialize its goal for 2010: to build the 1000th house. Beautiful place and to suffer the marginalization of the past, today we realize that the marsh and the river's edge are more blessed to exploit tourism, a river-side avenue and urban improvement. On December 19th, with the construction of the 1000th house, UTPMP Paraguay are proud to be situated close to Chile and Argentina that have surpassed the barrier before, and it just drives to realize the goal of the following 1000 homes. And ends this part of my story in photos, which today UTPMP allows a thousand families to have the opportunity for a fresh start. |
15:59 - After visiting the school where it was all the logistics group, I went to one of the houses that being built that day and was about to be inaugurated. At this time only the final adjustments were made in the ceiling.
The balloons are part of the traditional preparations for the inauguration of a house in UTPMP. Is a unique moment because although the owner -in this case Mrs. Felicia- observes the whole process, this is the first time that will put her feets in the finished house.
The UTPMP constructions are not only possible thanks to the fuel of young hands of volunteers, but also through the private sector. For the campaign of "The 1000th House", EMG* decided to celebrate its 15 year of history, building 15 houses including the number 1000, through grants, services and that fuel from their youth.
16:25 - Sergio placed tricolor ribbon also traditionally used in the door of each house for the opening.
Mrs. Felicia visibly excited, because in a few moment she will restart this stage of her life. Her previous home was mounted almost to chance, tied or nailed to wood, covered with plastic or tin roofs gifted. Now she will have a strong wall that supports the wind on stormy days, and she will not suffer with the pools and rapids that flooded his floor and the leaks that made his own. Yes, life is tough in the Marsh, life is hard to the sometimes forgotten people, for the rest.
One of the JC of this construction tells to Felicia about the values to be considered from now on, this opportunity to begin this new chapter in her life, and that their desire to excel can be met. The aim will be to set goals and reach them.
Federico "Fidu" Gonzalez, EMG* hugs Mrs. Felicia, in an emotionally charged moment where she tried to stay strong and unwavering. But the applause, shouts and smiles make any character structure to break.
16:47 - And here is the moment where Felicia cut the threecolor ribbon, and cut a stage of his life leaving it behind. A new beginning should always be marked by a symbolic act, which gives more strength and courage.
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Neighborhood kids, nephews and even Joshua, delighted playing with the tiny-stars in the house in a sort of celebration, as a novelty because it was not Christmas yet, but surely that Felicia's family that night would also be a good night.
Maika play and start more tiny-stars for the children who enjoyed for a few moments the fleeting of their brilliance, incomparable brilliance with memories they will have about this group.
Felicia tells me "I'll always have this as a remember" when talking about the threecolor ribbon that was used to open his house. Many volunteers and builders of UTPMP also adopt the practice of bracelets made with threecolor ribbons in their buildings. A kind of memory of the first house, perhaps the first great duty satisfaction of helping others.
The traditional picture of all the builders making the sign of the "little house" and Felicia, with her two families: the usual and the new, made by these young people lived together and shared with her in these 48 hours. Success for her.
17:02 - A pair of bombs and rocket-bomb are turned on by volunteers in the party, also by the proximity of the holidays and for the enjoyment of the children present.
The Marsh and against all the prejudices that exist, offers in its streets and its people nothing but hospitality and respect for who come to visits. Walking the streets of Felicia from home to the 1000th House, people will smile when see you with a camera, they ask you to take them a picture and they ask questions. I always answer that I come not to steal an image, but I come to turn them into characters of my stories, like this young man and his daughter.
And there, in one corner of Southern Marsh, there is stood the 1000th House, while the guys of EMG* already practically completed the building, are now preparing to paint it red, white and blue, colors of our main national symbol in celebration mode for the goal achieved.
Myriam is the owner of the 1000th House of UTPMP and live there with his beautiful family, here her sons Abraham and Adam, with a tremendous look of restless and mischievous smile from the truck while their house is almost finished and painted.
The group of young builders of EMG* ended the work in the home of Felicia, then come to Myriam's home ready to help the other volunteers.
Myriam (22 years), the future owner of the house also got what it takes in UTPMP, as they say, and help paint her new home. Sometimes we are surprised to find this reality, where at her young age, she should sacrifice more than any wife, because of her three children, the situation in which they live, by the limited opportunities to have it.
A Myriam's neighbor family who had previously been benefited with UTPMP, from his window notes the work underway in the 1000th House.
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17:50 - Slowly the 1000th House would be completed, getting those colors that would give a special style. The hope lay in the red, the inner peace with each volunteer in the white, and in the blue the freedom for this family, where they will left behind their prison of 2m x 2m were they previously lived almost overcrowded.
18:00 - Work on the roof had already finished, it was time to tweak the final coats of paint in the house. Congratulations!
Much of the EMG*'s group that built Felicia's house, rested while the crew finished painting the Myriam's house.
In the group of builders of this house was the friend of Chile XXX
Michael talked with the girls just minutes before they close the windows and prepare the decorations inside the house. Now they just needed to paint a small part in the front.
18:26 - The 1000th House was ready to be opened! Congratulations guys, your met the goal, the goal was reached. UTPMP managed to put his seal and signature on the history, arms and hands that tirelessly allowed to carry out this dream today see it as a reality and only saved energy for the next thousand houses
We take the time to celebrate with the boys for finishing the house, and we could not let the gift of nature that day gave us, the sun and moon as curtains at each end, where the young people also gave two suns and two moons of his life in search of a better society.
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18:42 - Myriam Go behind that door, behind that tape, behind this symbolic act, begins a new stage in your life with your husband Santiago, and your three beautiful children, Abraham, Adam and Verónica.
And to give the closing that deserves a great goal, the band "Sounds of Earth", with violins sound playing the music of Congratulations. The boys of this group, is a case to admire because they also belong to the Marsh and elsewhere "forgotten", and thanks to the social integration program (Sounds of Earth), these children have the opportunity to learn music and get more open doors because of it.
Termina mi labor fotográfica en este POST pero seguro comienza un nuevo capítulo donde en las construcciones de la tercera semana de Febrero me inscribiré como voluntario, dispuesto a cambiar cámara y lentes por martillo y serrucho, a tiempo completo. Si estás interesado para participar en las siguientes construcciones y buscar de esta forma mejorar nuestra sociedad, podés inscribirte en www.untechoparamipais.org.py Espero que también lo hagas... Ñamba'apo oñondive!!! | End of my photographic work in this POST but surely begins a new chapter where in the constructions of February I will enroll as a volunteer, willing to change camera lenses for hammer and saw, full time. If you are interested to participate in the following constructions and thus seek to improve our society, you can sign up at www.untechoparamipais.org.py I hope that you do... Ñamba'apo Oñondive! |
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