This is a grassroots initiative located in a Kechwa community near from Cusco Awaiting Angels is very interested to bring volunteers to this project to help accomplish the goals of our tiny “Ati Sunchis” school. Rosaura Ciprian is currently our only one volunteer teacher.

Rosaura comes to the school every day from Monday to Friday from 3-5 and helps the children from ages between 3 to 15 years in their homework, she organizes among children handcrafts activities, educative games and workshops. To keep children attending she brings food and let the children care the school orchard . The task of Rosaura is very important in concerns of community educative development. Due to the high percentage of illiteracy parents are not competent to help children with homework.

An average of 15 children attend the school during the school time. During vacations the number of children increase up to 30 children. The potential of this tiny school is big since the  community is large and many children would like to attend but Rosaura alone can not help to every one.

The beautiful Kechwa Community

Ati Sunchis can place up to 4 volunteers at one time lead by Rosaura. We have tons of plans and ideas to accomplish. We are desperately looking how to improve the facilities and the infrastructure. As you can see the school is small and lack of electricity and toilet. The water supply in this moment is broken and the school has suffered a robbery. We are in need of a new stove to cook meals and school and craft supplies.

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.