Fondation VINCI pour la Cité and Nuevo Pudahuel create alliance with TECHO-Chile to build 64 homes for overcrowded families in communities next to Santiago airport
31/08/2020 According to the 2017 Census, 14% of the population in the Pudahuel municipality is overcrowded, which is equivalent to about 29,800 people.For this reason, TECHO-Chile and Fundación Vivienda launched the Chile Comparte Vivienda (Chile Shares Housing) campaign, which seeks to finance and build basic housing where families can go through quarantine –and any potential future emergencies– in proper housing. Accordingly, the VINCI Foundation has donated 100,000 Euros (over $95,000,000 pesos) to TECHO-Chile and Fundación Vivienda to build 64 homes to be developed alongside Nuevo Pudahuel volunteers.
The call from the health authorities is to "stay home" and "keep your distance", but what about those who do not have a home of their own and must live in overcrowded conditions? If I don't have a home, how do I stay in it? “The infection and lethality levels of the COVID-19 virus in the Metropolitan Region have mainly affected the most vulnerable municipalities, which are highly overcrowded and sheltered.
That is why we launched this joint campaign, to ensure that the families with whom both foundations work have a proper, albeit temporary, place to find a way out of the emergency they are facing during this crisis”, explains Sebastián Bowen, Executive Director of TECHO-Chile and Fundación Vivienda. With this in mind, Nuevo and VINCI Airports believe that promoting the well-being of the local community is a priority, so this help will benefit families in vulnerable and overcrowded environments in the municipality of Pudahuel.
Nuevo Pudahuel's CEO, Xavier Lortat-Jacob, stated that "we are not only committed to successfully overcome this pandemic, to work with the Chilean Government to amend the economic imbalance that it has brought and to support the airlines, but also to lend a hand to our community, and to ensure that our development goes hand in hand with sustainable growth." The help will be given by carrying out two volunteer activities with Nuevo Pudahuel workers during November and December of this year.