Compañía Regional Aguas Marítimas S.A.

For a neighborhood without violence

At the community camp “Luz Divina” we signed an agreement with Recrea, Foundation, joining the Women’s Circle Program, an initiative that benefits 120 women from Antofagasta and Calama, educating them about gender violence.

The city’s landfill is located on the slopes of the Quebrada La Chimba gorge, where most of the camps in the area are located. The Luz Divina camp in La Chimba – where today live mainly immigrants from countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, along with a few Chileans – has had to rise up and rebuild itself day by day. Many are the victories of which today they can be proud, such as the parish founded in 2000; the dining room that has been functioning uninterruptedly since 1997 and the satisfaction of seeing how the hundreds of families that have lived temporarily in these houses, today have their own homes.

With the same strength that Susana Veliz ( Auntie Chana, as everyone calls her) – leader of the Luz Divina Temporary Settlement – and today under the leadership of Felipe Berríos, they have managed to build a community library and its Protected Afternoon program (2015); a soccer field (2018), and of course, the Training Center; a space where men and women – mainly camp residents – finish their studies and receive training in basic trades: carpentry; gasfitting; electricity; hairdressing; dressmaking; gastronomy; welding.