ULMA Group cooperates with the Foundation Vicente Ferrer in the creation of new housing
There are no serious punctual conflicts in this state, but an extreme ongoing lack where sporadic interventions are insufficient to face up to the endemic difficulties that are deeply rooted in its social structure.
The philosophy and action of Vicente Ferrer is based on the creation of complete programmes designed on the base of experience of each citizen and working key aspects like education, health, women, attention to the incapacitated, ecology, and housing, the living conditions of the population improve, being consolidated as strong and autonomous communities.
Working key aspects like education, health, women, attention to the incapacitated, ecology, and housing, the living conditions of the population improve, being consolidated as strong and autonomous communities
This year ULMA Group has collaborated in the project that will allow the construction of 41 houses in the town of Ipperu located in Anantapur, one of the districts of Andra Pradesh. These houses represent a before and after for the families that due to their situation of social marginalism are obliged to live in precarious cabins grouped in colonies separated from the upper casts and far from the basic services like wells, toilets, first aid or schools.
The colonies built by the Foundation Vicente Ferrer are equipped with minimum health conditions, being an efficient safety guard against the torrential rains, dangerous animals, and intense heat, but above all, providing a sense of dignity to a deeply discriminated community.
The Vicente Ferrer Association has created an exemplary model of International Cooperation due in large to the way its founder understands development. Vicente Ferrer has accumulated great knowledge about the customs and beliefs of the beneficiaries, considering their active participation in the design and implementation of programmes as fundamental.
This way, the participation of the community in Ipperu in the construction of the 41 houses that will become their property, pursues the objective of strengthening the feeling of responsibility, increasing their self-esteem, and contributing to the increase of their feeling of belonging to a community.
This feeling of responsibility, is translated into an increase in the involvement of families that naturally adopt a series of attitudes and commitments like that of taking their children to school, attending the health services, or that of attending the training workshops of the Foundation to develop their abilities, which in the end, will improve their quality of live and smoothen the road to social integration.
