20 universitarios navarros viajarán a Guatemala para construir viviendas en una zona devastada por las tormentas Stan y Agatha
20 university students from Navarra will travel to Guatemala to build houses in an area devastated by storms Stan and Agatha.
Architecture students from the University of Navarra will work on this project for the fifth consecutive year.
20 volunteers from the School of Architecture from the University of Navarra, all of them from the Comunidad Foral, will travel to Guatemala this summer to build houses in Chipatán, a village in Santa Apolonia. This is an area of department in Chimaltenango that was devastated by storms Stan and Agatha in 2005 and 2010.
The 20 students will work in this project, for the fifth consecutive year, together with other volunteers from the University of the Isthmus and monitors from the NGO FUDI. The initiative was born in 2007 thanks to the contacts that María Antonia Frías, professor at School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, maintains with the University of the Isthmus, in Guatemala, and has been maintained every year since then.
The volunteers successively improve the current housing project , with innovative proposals that combine functionality and technical perfection with aesthetics and sustainability. The impulse of these improvements is facilitated by the coexistence with Guatemalan university students -with whom they will work together in the village-, with the members of the NGO and with the beneficiaries.
The young people who will travel to Guatemala in July are: Irantzu Abaurrea, María Alfaro, Cristina Arribas, Ion Vivanco, Marta Boneta, Imanol Etayo, Nerea González, Amaia Guibert, Berta Iribarren, Maider Isturiz, Pello Iturria, María Labairu, Javier Larrea, Jokin Lecumberri, Borja Lorenzana, Maite Navarro, Uxue Pérez de Pipaon, Marta Sánchez, Koldo Urrutia and Maitane Zazu.
Contributions to project
The issue of houses to be built on this occasion will depend on the economic contributions received by project. All the proceeds are invested in construction materials; for this reason, the young people have carried out different activities during the academic year (such as concerts, tombolas, etc.) to raise funds.
Donations can also be made through Fundación Rode: Banco de Vasconia, Pamplona 0095 4709 80 0600014841 (indicate: project Guatemala); or the NGO Fundación para el development Integral FUDI, Banco Industrial, Guatemala c/c 006-009914-3 (indicate: project viviendas en Chipatán). It is also part of the program Tú eliges, tú decides of Caja Navarra (project 22338: 'Arquitectura y development: Construcción viviendas para indígenas damnificados. Guatemala'.