The San Clemente Community Center primary goal is to give the local community
a place to gather and accomplish many important activities that will improve
their living conditions. The San Clemente Community Center congregates 85
young families with an average of 2 & 3 children per family
The community center will offer a food shelter, a day care center, a first
aid center (apparently for medical campaigns), a library, a learning center
with Internet availability for after school activities and educational workshops.
This project is launched and carried on by Western SOS – Awaiting Angels and
the Community of San Clemente. You can find detailed information on our
community center project below.
Purposes of the Community Center
Need for Community Center
Sections at Community Center
Location
Permissible Buildings
Facilities, furniture supplies and donations
Community Center exact location
Models of the Community Center
Purposes of the Community Center
In building this Community Center we attempt to achieve the following:
- To first and foremost to
improve the very basic living conditions of the Community of San Clemente, Pisco.
- To offer Day Care services to working families with children.
- To offer a first aid kit for minor’s health issues and eventual free medical campaigns.
- To offer a food shelter for children attending school for people who work all day.
- To offer an after school for the students who parents can not help them.
- To establish a “Conference Hall” in which to discuss community matters;
- To create an Education Center where children and adults alike may come to learn English, computing, and craft activities.
All of this among the many other benefits that we look forward to providing includes latrines, Internet access and a library.
In taking our first steps towards achieving our goals and making the Community Center a reality, we have held and will continue to accomplish several arrangements with Pisco local government, the San Clemente community leaders
and the Western SOS team.
Need for Community Center
The idea of founding a community center in San Clemente – Pisco is a common ground that unites families in this district. There is a variety of reasons for establishing a community center in this district. The most important ones can be listed as follows:
- Helping people feel a part of a community and belong to somewhere: After the 2007 earthquake many people lost their houses or were displaced from their dwellings. The local government gave this people a land to start a new life. Up to this time the support of the central government is null. Although the community has an official recognition, they do not have basic services such as potable water, electricity and paved streets.
- The monthly income of an average family is USD 150 this amount just covers their very basic necessities
- The health conditions of children are threatened by their very basic living conditions; they suffer with skin diseases, constant diarrhea, and mosquito vector diseases.
- Creating a day care center where working parents can leave their children with confidence.
- Educational activities like tutorship, ELT lessons, craft activities, sexual education workshops, nutrition guidance and prevention of domestic violence will be offered among the community with the participation of local and international volunteers.
Sections at Community Center
In order to serve the needs explained above, our community center will contain the following sections:
Multipurpose room (dining room, Conference Hall, after school activities room) –
Targeting to satisfy the communal needs of families, the area of this room is 80 square meters with a capacity of 100 people, this room is made of wood (pre-fabricated) and roofed with corrugated cement sheets.
Medical consulting room - This 11,25 square meters room, will be equipped with basic medical furniture and medical supplies. The people will find first aid assistance and scheduled medical campaigns will be offered in this place.
Day Care Center – This is a 30 square meters area with a small cement covered play yard. Children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years will be cared and fed.
Library and Computer Center – This part of the community center will provide a place to access Internet. The users will pay a symbolic fee in order to maintain the services. This section is not included in the first stage.
Kitchen – This 11,25 square meters room will be equipped with a stove and kitchen supplies to offer daily meals to the community.
Latrines – in this first stage the community center
has two latrines to be used for the kids at the day care.
Location
It is located in the San Clemente district, the main characteristic of this area is the sandy and dusty soil.
The area of the land where the communal center will be built is 200 square meters, this land has the official permit of the city government. The San Clemente district is located 5 kilometers north of Pisco city.
Permissible Buildings
Before the earthquake this land was used only for agricultural purposes. In this moment the land is parceled and offered to families without private properties by the San Clemente municipality. As burocracy and centralism is a big problem in Peru new communities need to wait many years to have their land properly conditioned with main services like potable water, electricity, pavement, telephone lines and drainage. We have arrived to an agreement with the San Clemente municipality to build the community center.
Furniture, facilities and
supplies & Donations
Multipurpose room
12 benches , 6 tables, 5 kilograms fire extinguisher, 1 whiteboard.
Medical consulting room
1 desk + stretcher
Kitchen
Three burners gas stove, 1 propane gas cylinder, 1 table for the kitchen, washstand, set of dishes, set of cutlery, set of kitchen pots, 40 and 140 liters water containers, set of kitchen ladles, set of kitchen glass.
Day care
1 bookcase, 2 tables for day care, 16 chair for kids, 4 folding beds, 40 liters water containers and 2 latrines
Donations
This is a list of the most needed items
Mosquito nets, water purification pills, water filter, medical supplies, computers, printer, stabilizer, toys, educational games, library supplies, craft materials & supplies, clothes, school supplies, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, and baby care items for free distribution to the families of san Clemente.
Community Center exact location
More photos
These photos will help us to have a better idea about the San Clemente Community
Water containers
“Parcel 9″ The current land where the San Clemente Community Center will be built
“Parcel 9″ back view
Models of the Community Center
This is the type of building to be used for the Community Center. this is just an example. The San Clemente Community Center will have a better appareance.
The SCCC will be built over a polished cement platform, will be painted and the roof will be of better quality.
