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• W315355829 abstract "Villa Santa Raquel is a housing project on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, that consists of thirty-three buildings, 495 apartments, and twenty-seven hundred residents. Its inhabitants refer to their living quarters as matchboxes when they describe the cramped space and flimsy construction. The Villa was hastily built during the Pinochet dictatorship as part of a massive effort to relocate Santiago's poor from the city center to the periphery. It was built without concern for the social lives or needs of its residents. There were no streetlights, pavement, or playgrounds. By 1990 the Villa was a site of concentrated poverty without a sense of community identity. Outsiders saw it as a dangerous place where problems flourished: unemployment, drug addiction, alcoholism, abandonment, and crime. Many residents shared this perception of the Villa and feared for their children's future. With their energies absorbed by the daily demands of family survival, few people saw themselves as protagonists in the creation of a different kind of community. Through the formidable efforts of a handful of residents, led by fellow resident Ovadia Rachel Vargas, Santa Raquel has been transformed from an unwelcoming encampment to a place to call home. At the center of the Villa is the Father Hurtado Child Care Center, Vargas's pride and joy. The center is the product of her tireless efforts to create a better social space for all children, especially those with special needs; she embarked on the project after her fifth and youngest child was born with Down's syndrome in 1992. The center provides quality day care to twenty preschoolers from the Villa and also includes an infant nursery, as well as a comfortable indoor playroom and kitchen, a secure outdoor play area, a garden where children take part in tending the vegetables and fruit that supplement their meals, and a community hall that has hosted a teen group and neighborhood gatherings. The physical facility was built with supplies donated by or purchased at cost from local businesses that, with time, came to appreciate Vargas's vision and persistence. Local residents helped in the construction of the center. A concrete wall, on which are painted vibrant murals that depict children as part of the community's social life, surrounds the outdoor courtyard and garden. It contributes to the center's character as an oasis in the housing project. Adjacent to the center is a fenced basketball court. Vargas was instrumental in getting it lighted so that older youth would also have social space to call their own. Funding for maintenance and development has been precarious from the start. For the past decade Vargas and a dedicated group of volunteers have doggedly pursued resources to keep the center afloat. The larger story of the center's history can be understood only as part of Vargas's own story of struggle and activism, hope and determination. Vargas came to Santiago at a dynamic time of social movements in Chile. Throughout the 1960s poor and working-class people were staking their claims to their rights as workers, citizens, and community members through tomas [organized land seizures]. By 1972, under the hopeful and chaotic Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, there were more than 300 encampments of working-class families in greater Santiago, each with thousands of residents (Valdes and Weinstein 1993, 62). The years of the Popular Unity government (1970-73) witnessed a fluorescence of community participation among pobladoras, women of the popular sectors, collectively engaged in building community infrastructure and addressing basic health, housing, child care, and educational needs. Their hopes were dashed by the military coup of September 11,1973, that overthrew the Allende government and launched seventeen years of dictatorial rule under General Auguste Pinochet. Vargas's story and that of Villa Santa Raquel is embedded in this larger history. In 1999, after four years of friendship and connection, Vargas offered to share her story with me, and we made plans to record an oral history. …" @default.
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• W315355829 title "For Love and Justice: Ovadia's Story" @default.
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