This project has successfully built a Meeting Place aimed at training and developing local actions that promote sustainable and organized societies. We are now in the phase of activating this space through the implementation of various activities and partnerships.
Specifically in the municipality of Benitez, poverty levels range between 82% and 35% of young people who do not study or have a job. There is evidence of a high level of school desertion among young people over 15 years of age, a high percentage of illiterate people, adolescents without a life project or job opportunities. The region has been stagnant and its inhabitants show hopelessness that is exacerbated by community segregation due to lack of basic services.
The Meeting Place will enable community members to hold meetings to address key community issues, such as the defense of fundamental and citizen rights. Additionally, it will provide vocational training, facilitate recreational and cultural activities, offer primary medical care, conduct workshops for knowledge transmission, provide psychopedagogical support, and offer leveling programs for children.
These tools will be the catalyst for the upward economic movement of the community. This new meeting place will be a light (in the metaphorical and literal sense) to transcend the harsh reality that the rural communities of the Paria Peninsula face every day.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
