Micaela Bastidas Library and Games Center
The Micaela Batistas Library offers programs for everyone. The most famous, “Useful Vacation”, provides a variety of classes each year, ranging from math, comunicación, voice, foreign language, sports, cooking, and more. The Useful Vacation participates in the personal development of children, in turn preventing future delinquency, sustance abuse, and school dropouts. For adults, the space is open for literacy classes. Since many women coming from the Andes were unable to attend school growing up, the library, in collaboration with the organization "Sol Sumaq", provides comprehensive classes.
Señoras Constructoras
From the neighborhood La Ensenada, 30 women joined together to form part of a group of builders. Through the group, each worker not only is capable of laying brick, but has achieved a greater social and economic independence, and enjoys living conditions more favorable to gender equality. Their knowledge is visible in the work done on their own houses and furniture within them. As well as women, the group also allows the participation of youths in difficult situations.
Camino de los Parques
Now measuring up over 5000m2 of constructed parques, La Ensenada was once a place very distinct. As a mountainous comunidad, the residents lived exposed to its environment, vulnerable to earthquakes and heavy rains. However, because of the project of parks that began in the early 2000s, these risks have greatly reduced, allowing for better environmental security, along with improved air quality, space of rest, interpersonal bonds, and greater food independence.
Botiquín Los Jazmines
At the Farmacia Popular, medicinal plants are available for purchase, and three times a week hosts sessions with a heath promoter, who receives pacients on a consultory basis. There, one can receive first aid, be redirected to a health center, receive help with medical documents. The social promoters give space to those in need of assistance, and even orient them to the association's volunteer lawyer in case of legal questions, or to to the institute's medical commision in case of health issues.
Mano a Mano Association
Mano a Mano Peru is a non-profit Peruvian association that, for the past 30 years, has conducted projects in La Ensenada de Chillón, in the northern part of Lima. Their inciatives have manifested in social, healthcare, and educational activities. The association was created by people from the very same community, alongside volunteers, and with support from other residents in preventing violence, respecting the environment, and solidifying equal opportunity.
