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Un Techo para Chile was founded in 1997 by Jesuit priest Felipe Berríos, along with a group of university students. In 2001 it began expanding to other countries under the name Un Techo para mi País. In 2012 the name was changed to TECHO. [3]
A group of volunteers of Un Techo para Chile building a mediagua. Mediagua, is the name given in Chile to a type of prefabricated house, constructed of wood panels, which can be erected in less than a day. The traditional model has an area of 18 square metres (190 sq ft).
The non-governmental organization Un Techo para Chile defines a campamento as a group of basic and rudimentary dwellings that house at least eight families. These settlements lack at least one essential service, such as drinking water , electricity , or wastewater treatment , and are illegally occupying the land. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Chile ayuda a Chile (Chile helps Chile [1]) was a charity telethon being held from March 5 to March 6, 2010. The event was broadcast from Teatro Teletón in Santiago, Chile. [2] The telethon's aim was to raise money to help those affected by the 2010 Chile earthquake that struck the central-southern Chile on 27 February of that year. [3]
Chile, [a] officially the Republic of Chile, [b] is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica , stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean .
Location of Chile. Chile is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south.
Chile's 2017 census reported a population of 17,574,003 people. Its rate of population growth has been decreasing since 1990, due to a declining birth rate . [ 6 ] By 2050 the population is expected to reach approximately 20.2 million people, at which point it is projected to either stagnate or begin declining. [ 7 ]