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TECHO, also known as Un Techo para mi País (UTPMP) (Spanish for "A Roof For My Country"), is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes youth volunteers to fight extreme poverty in Latin America, by constructing transitional housing and implementing social inclusion programs.
Precaria is a concept suggested in the framework of the international campaign of the non-governmental organisation Un techo para mi país (TECHO), in English "A roof for my country", that designates allegorically an imaginary country which would be inhabited by all the poor people from Latin America, for pointing out the magnitude of this critical situation as opposed to the constitutional ...
UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor Award The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award was created by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) in 1989 to encourage and recognize the countries , governments , organizations , and individuals who have made great contributions to the development of housing . [ 1 ]
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An Intel microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that was, at one time, responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 5% of the country's GDP (from Costa Rica) Image 40 The University of Costa Rica is the largest university in the country and one of the most recognizable across Central America .
A standard mediagua, such as those installed by the housing foundation Un Techo para Chile ("A Roof for Chile") is of 6.1 metres (20 ft) long by 3 metres (9.8 ft) wide, which is designed to house a family of 4. There is also a model of half the area of the former, for single people and couples.
Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e., Colombia), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish ...
The harsh work conditions prompted them to leave the railroad project although many remained in Costa Rica, settling in a government-sponsored colony known as San Vito in the Southern Pacific region. However, one third of those Italian workers of the railways remained in Costa Rica and created a small but important community. [9]