PROJECT UPDATES
Oct 6, 2009 Coral's Photography for the Subtanjalla District Classroom
1Well Citizen Philanthropist Coral Zayas is selling her original photography to raise money for the funding of a Youth Outreach Center in the Subtanjalla District of Peru. Support Coral's efforts by purchasing one of her amazing photographs! You can purchase the photos shown above at Mission Fish, or Image Kind.
Hi everyone,
My name is Coral Zayas and I’m a recent college graduate from Elon University in North Carolina. My bachelors is in International Studies with an emphasis in Latin America. My junior year of college I was invited to attend the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative University conference in New Orleans, LA. Every college student who attended was asked to make a commitment to work for change in a variety of areas, I choose to focus on poverty eradication through education. My commitment is to build schools in rural parts of Latin America. In the future I would like to expand my work to an even further level, but thanks to the wonderful use of social media I found 1 Well through twitter. I follow organizations and individuals that do work I truly believe in and I was inspired by 1Well’s creative approach through their Citizen Philanthropist model.
My interests have long been within Latin America and I feel that education is a basic human right. Working with 1 Well and with Coprodeli on the Subtanjalla District CAE Classroom project has been a fantastic way to get started on my CGIU commitment to create better access to education in rural Latin America. I plan on fundraising by auctioning off my photographs from Latin America, I really enjoy photography as a hobby and have at times considered my own website and small business but I really never wanted the profits but I wanted to give back in some way from those profits. This project has been a fantastic combination that is allowing me to use my photography to fundraise for the Subtanjalla District CAE Classroom. I also just relocated to an extremely art friendly community in Flagstaff, AZ and in the coming months I plan on being a part of this group and requesting the assistant of fellow artists in providing a space in the monthly art walks or even in studios so that the photography can be sold with all proceeds going to 1Well to fund this project. I hope that through this project I can really help bring rural Peru a badly needed resource so they can in turn help even more Peruvian citizens in their quest to move out of poverty.
About the Subtanjalla Centro de Atención Externa (CAE)
Subtanjalla is an urban marginalized community on the outskirts of Ica City, Peru with a population of approximately 16,900. More than 90% of the Ica Region was devastated in an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in August 2007, leaving more than 80,000 families homeless, and destroying 120 educational centers. Coprodeli has built a Centro de Atención Externa (CAE, or Youth Outreach Center) as part of Colegio San Antonio to provide dignified housing and access to education, health care, and child development services to earthquake victims living in extreme poverty in the Subtanjalla community.
The CAE’s focus includes psychosocial and medical care, nutrition, and education support, and an emphasis on identifying children in situations of high risk and addressing their needs on an individual and group basis. In the first year of operation, the CAE is projected to serve 50 high risk children and 30 parents as part of Subtanjalla’s Center for Social Services, and to double its capacity in the second year to 100 children and 60 parents.
Coral's Project
This project will fund equipment for a multipurpose classroom in the center, where workshops, group sessions for children and recreation activities will be held. The room will hold a television, DVD player in addition to tables, chairs and desks. This classroom will create a comfortable and safe area for CAE program activities to be carried out, and foster an environment that promotes participation and active involvement.
Impact
In the first year of operation, the CAE is projected to serve 50 high-risk children and 30 parents as part of Subtanjalla’s Colegio San Antonio, and to double its capacity in the second year to 100 children and 60 parents.
The CAE will allow children to improve their academic performance and social integration, and parents to increase their knowledge of general health and family wellbeing topics through parent workshops. Children will receive 2 nutritious meals a day and both parents and children will benefit from workshops on proper nutrition.
Join Coral and partner with Subtanjalla District to provide 50 at-risk children with hot, nutritious meals.
Thank You
Eugenio A. (Washington, DC), Margaret W. (Washington, DC), and Seth M. (Chicago, IL)
for investing in this project!
