Más de 320 escuelas, 70.346 m² construidos y 126.000 niños beneficiados.
Región Nº escuelas y jardines infantiles
Alumnos Students 11.830 19.413 37.709 57.064 126.006
Region
Nº schools and kindergartens
More than 320 schools, 70.346 m² built and 126.000 benefitted children.
O’Higgins
54 52
Maule Biobío
133
Metropolitana
85
Superficie total construida / Built area total Superficie total módulos (858) / Modules area total Superficie espacios cubiertos / Covered spaces area
70.346 m²
Total
324
32.642 m²
23.707 m²
Superficie multicanchas / Multi-use courts area
8.550 m²
After the great 8.8º Richter earthquake and consequent tidal wave of the 27 of February of last year, the Teleton Foundation organized the event “Chile helps Chile”, on the 5th and 6th of March, very few days after the disaster, where forces rose to help the victims in a country still perplexed by what happened. The task of collecting $15,000 million (US$30 million) to build emergency houses was easily achieved, in fact reaching more than $45,000 million (US$90 million). Teleton had agreed that the excess of this target –that was delivered to A Roof for Chile (Un Techo para Chile), organism that channelled the emergency housing– would be given to the reconstruction of the schools damaged or devastated by the catastrophe. With this mission, immediately the Schools for Chile was formed, presided by the industrialist Lazaro Calderón, who next to president of Teleton Foundation, Carlos Alberto Délano, initiated the contacts to integrate a Committee that would unite experts of different specialties, in addition to representatives of the Ministry of Education and the National Reconstruction Office. Thus, the gigantic task of reconstruction that would embrace 320 schools and more than 126 thousand students of kindergarten, junior and senior levels of the affected area, was formed. On the 7th of March the Architectural Office Association (AOA) joined the Schools of Chile committee, where its vice-president, the architect Yves Besançon, participated as the Architecture Director. As a first step, local manufacturers of modules were visited with the aim of evaluating its products and its feasibility in schools, but none had enough capacity to fulfil the quick and massive reconstruction, and achieving that thousands of kids of the devastated areas did not lose even one day of school, as was the official commitment. In parallel, numerous offers were received of Chinese, Spanish and Canadian modular systems, which also could not accomplish the delivery schedule necessary for the project.
El arquitecto Yves Besançon, vicepresidente AOA y Director de Arquitectura del Comité Escuelas para Chile. / The architect Yves Besançon, vice president AOA and Architecture Director Schools for Chile Committee.
Carlos Alberto Délano, Lázaro Calderón and Yves Besançon thus made a quick trip the States to visit a factory specializing in modular schools in Miami, which did fulfil the quality requirements, delivery times and volumes required to face the emergency. Product of the negotiations, 1000 modules were purchased, that were to be transported by ship to Chilean ports, to then be taken by ground to each one of the determined destinations.
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