On Saturday at 6:30 the second edition of the Poetry Recital took place. It was run by the INQUIETUDES for the benefit of PAYPE (Programs of support for Peru).
Photographer: Katia Muñoz
POETRY RECITAL 2010
Photographer: Katia Muñoz
TRIP TO PERU JUNE - JULY 2009
The preparation began many months before the trip. We had many missions and had to coordinate them to maximize the potential of the trip. We left Barcelona with Eva Navarrete, a Member of the Board and a lawyer, who advises us on legal matters, her stay was not very long due to scheduling conflicts, although she took advantage of living close to the projects that we had under way. What is more, M. Elena Palacio, President of the board and sculptor, spent 5 weeks visiting, supervising the different projects and teaching some occupational workshops mainly for women. Later Margarita Serra would be added to the team, a professor of nutrition with 5 pupils, whom by agreement with the University Ramón Llull (URL) School of Nutrition Blanquerna, would develop a nutrition project in the college “La Cantera” (the quarry) for the settlement called “El Milagro” in Huanchaco.
Our first chapter was Huanchaco where we were united with Susy Dávila, a volunteer since the beginning of PAYPE. She accompanied us on the visits and collaborated in the workshops. Ricardo Chavez was waiting for us in Piura where he was already busy with other projects.
In Huanchaco, we interviewed the mayor, Fernando Bazón Pinillos, with whom we coordinated the arrival of Margarita Serra and the students of nutrition. He was nice enough to put us in contact with the archaeologist Nancy Dominguez who taught us Chan-Chan, the oldest city of mud constructed, had been the capital of the kingdom of Chumú and was originally more than 20 square kilometers and situated in the neighborhood of Huanchaco. Since 1968 it has been a world heritage site by UNESCO.
We signed a cooperation agreement between the College "The Quarry" and PAYPE with Gaby Alfaro, the Director of the school, in order to carry out a nutrition project biannually. In this first phase there would be a nutritional study of the children, with samples taken so that later a project to reduce the malnutrition in the zone could be developed. The students were given shirts and school bags donated by La Caixa.
The signing of the cooperation agreement with College "La Cantera"
(The Quarry College) for the semiannual nutrition project.
We visited the establishment "Los Huertos" (The Orchards) in Huanchaco,
where we would hold some open workshops from June 22nd to July 4th.
Susana Chinchayan, treasurer of the Council of Neighbors, Eva Navarrete and
M. Elena Palacios in the classroom where the workshops were organized.
The workshops run were:
Cloth Painting Workshop
Cloth Dying Workshop
Glass Painting Workshop
Confectioner's Workshop: making donut-shaped fritters
Kitchen Workshop: making potato tortillas
Soap-Making Workshop
Cloth-Making Workshop
The objective of the "Los Huertos" project is to construct: a dining room, kitchen, occupational workshops, bathrooms, a house of refuge for single mothers and abandoned children, and a library. All this while preserving the environment, conserving Huanchaco's idiosyncrasy and making it sustainable.
Open workshops in "Los Huertos", Huanchaco
We continued our trip to Piura, where, thanks to the grant given by AECID (with the Renovation and Implementation of the libraries' network project), we have been able to remodel their 3 libraries' network in Piura : CARLOS CUETO (La URBA), CARMEN CHECA AND JORGE MOSCOL. In the Library (La Urba) a group of local inhabitants came to meet us, encouraged by our visit, as well as a visit to the other two.
We were received by the Mayor Monica Zapata of Castagnino in the Museum Auditorium of the city.
At all times, we were accompanied by the Councillor of Culture Palace Rosa Ramirez
With the Mayor of Peru, the Councillor of Culture Rosa Palacios, and Eva Navarrete
Back to Huanchaco we were greeted by the Rector of the National University of TrujilloUniversidad Nacional deTrujillo (UNT) D. Victor Carlos Saban Gamarra, for the cooperation through agreements in the different programs between the URL and UNT in solidarity.
Victor Carlos Sabana Gabarra.
Study sponsorship program with the College “The Miracle”. Setting up an agreement that consisted of paying for the studies of a child and monitering the child and their degree of achievement. The benefactor is allowed to have contact with the child who benefits.
A Visit to Chepén. A ShelterProject composed of a group of volunteers and altruistic women, is developing a project for a host shelter for single mothers and abandoned children to turn it into an orphanage. And managed the building and 11 sewing machines to provide women a trade in which they can earn a living while the hostel-orphanage finances. Currently, they are dealing with the theft of 8 of the 12 sewing machines, and all the disappointment the restart caused, to get more resources and move forward with the idea of forming the orphanage.
Preschool San José de Moro. We had an outstanding visit ,It has been two years that we had implemented its facilities. The furnitures were painted, cleaned and endowed as well as various school supplies and games given to develop their education.
We made the delivery of shirts donated by the Social Work "La Caixa", spent some time with the children, and played on the playground. It was a very special meeting.
You can see how they valued what they had been donated by the conservation index that was not only furniture but also books, toys etc. The teachers had educated the children to live with core values, as was respect for the things they use and enjoy. We supported several proposals, we agreed to assess them and hopefully we can meet such needs.
We also visited the Middle School "San José de Moro" which had developed our beginnings in this time we saw such a great improvement in the Middle School. A closed fence had been built so that the 300 children had no danger to the Pan-American Highway that passes in front. The house had been demolished and a larger two-story was constructed, including some sports field (soccer, basketball). Moreover, we delivered shirts to them.
Our next step was Chiclayo (Lambayeque) from where we reached to Mochumi.
We received the Mayor Teodoro Martinez Inoñán, who very kindly devoted his time to join us to learn abou the water supply project to Paredones Fundo. We wore the T-shirts and backpack donated by the Obra Social "La Caixa" where we delivered donations in three schools in very depressed areas. Due to the occasion of the transit strike, there was not much presence of children in the classroom.
We received the Mayor Teodoro Martinez Inoñán, who very kindly devoted his time to join us to learn abou the water supply project to Paredones Fundo. We wore the T-shirts and backpack donated by the Obra Social "La Caixa" where we delivered donations in three schools in very depressed areas. Due to the occasion of the transit strike, there was not much presence of children in the classroom.
We want to thank each and everyone with whom we have allied so kindly during our stay, for their great sympathy and help in order to meet our requirements and finish our travel program. The team has been around all these projects that we will work on during our winter. We want to make dreams a reality by improving the livelyhoods of the residents. Our priority is education and teaching, however we also seek to remind people that for some, every day is a struggle. We are confident that together we can reach our objectives. ALL TOGETHER. THERE, WITH LITTLE MUCH CAN BE DONE.
PROJECT: Libraries in Piura
Since education is the foundation for the development of a society, we wanted to take part in the Libraries Project in the northern zone of Peru. Through a grant from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) we are remodeling three libraries. The project is almost completed and we plan to inaugurate it during July, when a delegation from PAYPE will come and share with the Peruvians this meeting point and a diffusion of culture. This new concept of libraries is not just based on reading, but in the idea that the information and technology introduced in the libraries will be integral to the children’s education, opening the door for the future acquisition necessary for their personal development.
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.PROJECT: Mochumi
In the Mochumi District (Northern Zone) Caserio Tepo, a predominantly agricultural population, lives in extreme poverty. Twenty-five percent of the area's six to nine-year-olds are malnournished and ten percent are illiterate. We want to help them through a project for the purification of their water supply with civic participation. We would broaden the support with a volunteer-run program teaching useful skills and organizing workshops with the goal that those who take advantage of the workshops will then be able to support themselves.
POETRY GALA TO BENEFIT PAYPE
March 7th, 2009.
This is the first Poetry Gala by the Grupo Inquietudes (Inquiring Group), with the support of the Association of Women in Equality, that in a totally altruistic way acted for the benefit of PAYPE. The event was in the San Vincent Parochial Center on Sarría, a precious modernist theatre with a capacity of 230 people, the council of Sarria-San Gervasi subsized the event, as well as the publicity and diffusion. The poems were read on stage, there were verses from José Angel Buesa, Benito Carrasco, Rafael de León, Antonio Machado, Alvarez Quintero, Garcia Lorca, Angel, Zúñiga, Gregorio Chavarri y Cavestany. The public was awestruck by each poem and the poems were accompanied by people in magnificent costumes. With the venue almost full at 200 people it was a great success due to the quality and generosity on the part of the Grupo Inquietudes. The group is has engaged itself next year, with our new repertoire, to perform the second each. We had the opportunity to spread word of our programs, as well as to reveal the grant given to us by AECID for the remodeling of the network of libraries in Piura. The project consists of various libraries in various phases. The libraries "La Urba", "Los Algarrobos" and Micaela Bastida done by PAYPE, the Tambogrande and La Unión by Fernando Baracco, and the Central of Piura by IMANAY. All the appreciation for the grants given goes to AECID. This network of libraries is part of the director's plan to understand that poverty is a situation of a lack of opportunities, abilities, and options for sustaining a dignified quality of life. This network of libraries made possible by the donation from AECID, come to support the solution to eradicate the lack of education that is in itself poverty.
Chocolate Christmas 2008
December 18th, 2008.
"Open House", we organized this event with the aim of collecting funds so that the children of the Parochial Center of Huanchaco could have chocolate and Christmas presents this year. The open house took place in the house of a Filipina, Bing Barcelona, and featured pearls brought from the Phillipines and designed by a Filipino artist. The sale of these pearls went to charity since both the Filipino artist and Bing made the open house an altruistic donation. The offer seemed perfect to us because, given what time it was, we could contribute to the children's Christmas and at, the same time, have the opportunity to spread information about PAYPE's programs; especially the project of remodeling the libraries in Piura by means of subsidies granted by AECID. The lobby of women of the IESE collaborated for it's dissemination. The event had a high attendance of women. They bought different designs of pearls while at the same time contributed to the children's Christmas'.
Peruvian Movie Screening in Barcelona: Una Mirada al Sur
On September 5, 12, 18, 25 and 26 in 2008 we co-organized the first showing of the Peruvian movie "Una Mirada al Sur" (A look to the south). A proposal had been made to us to participate together with Contrapunto Multimedia in the co-organization of the screening. This showing has been presented in Madrid in 2006 and 2007 and obtained great success in terms of dissemination and attendance. The proposal seemed ideal to us since it has the same goals as PAYPE: contributing our support in being able to integrate in these children knowledge so they are able to develop as people. It is by means of the dissemination of their culture that we are able to give them the support they need and when their reality is understood something is done for them. The audiovisual form allows us to see the realities and difficulties that the Peruvian people experience, contributing significantly to an effective dissemination of the situation. The project has 3 phases: a showing of enjoyable fictional short films, a second phase dedicated to the documentary made by the Sede de Amigos (Headquarters of Friends) of UNESCO, and a final phase showing 6 feature films and documentaries with round/conference tables in the auditorium of MACBA.
Zaragoza Expo 2008
August 4th, 2008.
We were invited to the Expo of Water in Zaragoza 2008 in Peru, as part of the activities of the day in the Expo on the National day of Peru, by the UNESCO Chair in the URL. The book "Tipón: masterpiece of the hydraulic engineering of the Incan Empire” was presented. It counted on the presence of the head of the directorate of Environment of the Ministry of Outer Relations of Peru and commissioner of the Expo, Sergio Kostritsky; Vice-Director of the University Ramon Llull, Rosa Nomen; coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in the URL, Rosario Pastor; and the Managing Director of Culture in the National University of Engineering of Peru and Hydraulic Engineer Fernando Caller who made his presentation. He exposed how the Incas knew to synthesize the hydraulic achievements of their ancestors and he reflected how the Incan engineers were great connoisseurs in the handling and use of water. Tipón is declared an international historical monument of hydraulic engineering.
Project: "Los Huertos" of Huanchaco
We continue with another very ambitious and long-term project in "Los Huertos" (The Orchards) of Huanchaco. There we want to help improve the children's living conditions. As a starting point we begin with their nutrition and diet. We have an agreement from the Chair of UNESCO in the URL with the Blanquerna School of Nutrition with a volunteer program, for this summer, where 6 students with their professor Margarita Serra, will go in order to carry out a study of the zone. The children's nutritional as environmental problems will be studied so their necessities and deficiencies can be defined. The study also included the relatives of the children. A rigorous study of the zone will be made so the nutritional plan can be started, at the same time the students will carry out their work at the end of the study. The objective is none other than to educate the population nutritionally, facilitating for them the means necessary for securing their sustenance. With such poverty the education has to be very basic so they assimilate it and integrate it in their way of life. We will continue with the dining room, kitchen, place of refuge, workshop, library, the parochial church, a sport complex where the kids, together with their families form a part of the community and have the opportunity of being able to develop as people.
Our First Project: San José de Moro
We began in San José de Moro (in Chepén) improving its infrastructure. The inauguration took place on July 7th, 2006. The party the threw for us is hard to forget. The almost 300 children seated around the patio in order to witness the festival of singing and dancing that had been prepared for us, wanted to demonstrate their appreciation, enthusiasm, and surprise at having water, bathrooms, and balls to play with. They danced, they sang, and the kids expressed themselves in the unique manner that they know how to, with happiness and spontaneity. We became emotional. Later would come other writings or drawings, with phrases like "I hope that in the future you continue protecting us so we can develope" (Carmen Rosa) "I appreciate what you have done for us and for the professors" (Nancy Aracely). "Thanks for bringing us many gifts. We hope that you return soon. See you soon" (Nilson). The drawings expressed how they felt very well and our aid had not been misplaced. Later the mothers of the family made us food to share with them. It was a memorable day.
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