Villa El Salvador - Builders in the desert

www.auxdocks.com Villa El Salvador - Builders in the desert. A documentary 52' by JM Rodrigo & M Paugam

Villa el Salvador appeared thirty five years ago in the middle of the desert south of Lima, Peru. During At that time, a bunch of peasants and homeless faced the Peruvian army to have the right to settle in the sand, and create some cardboard huts. There was no water, nor electricity, nor roads. A classic scenario of the birth of a shanty town, these garbage dumps in which the metropolis of the world pour human beings

Workers, homeless and voiceless, to a great extent sons of peasants, with no other equipments but their own hands, started to build the city they dreamed of. Today, Villa El Salvador counts 500.000 inhabitants. It is organized around wide asphalted roads, along which are organized blocks of houses which form districts, interconnected by a system of drinking water and gathered around the town hall.

Millions of trees were planted, the some bring shadow to the tens of kitchen gardens, intended for the supply of hundreds of collective kitchens and school canteens. Southwards, near the cemetery, there is an industrial and an agricultural area.

The city, which already counts an itinerant cinema, a radio and a television station, recently inaugurated its University. Education is an absolute priority. Even the founders of the city, these old farmers who came from the mountains after the earthquake of 1970, now can read and write. It is their grandchildren who are the teachers today.

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• Villa El Salvador
• maria elena moyano
• constructores del desierto
• documentary
• documental
• shanty town
• globalization