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[[Image:UTPMP.jpg|thumb|right|300px|ARFMC (UTPMP)'s logo]][[Image:TechoChile2.jpg|thumb|right|100px|ARFC (UTPCH)'s logo]] '''A Roof For My Country''' (“Un Techo Para Mi País”) is an institution leaded by youngsters who through [[volunteer working]], are working since [[1997]] together with the [[marginal settlements populators]], to improve their [[quality of life]]; making, as a first step, the construction of [[emergency households]] and developing afterwards [[social habilitation plans]] by giving [[microcredits]] and enabling in basic occupations.
The institution wills to contribute and compromise the whole society in the construction of [[emergency households]] for the poorest of the poor in [[Latin America]], by conjunct work between [[populators]], [[volunteers]], [[enterprises]] and [[media]].
=History=
==Consolidation of "A Roof For Chile" (UTPCH, in Spanish), birth of "A Roof For My Country" (UTPMP, in Spanish) and motivation to create a Latin American institute of Volunteers.==
The [[Latin America]]n institute of youth volunteers, "A Roof for my Country", is born from the experience and the impulse given for [[A Roof for Chile]], one of the principal and most successful projects of volunteer social labour of that country.
[[A Roof for Chile]] in [[1997]], based on and maintaining to date its work, thanks to the force which thousands of young volunteers realized, which have to date built around 26,000 minimal housing or [[emergency housing]], for the poorest  families of the continent. ARCH (UTPCH) works with more than 18,000 volunteers year in and year out for campaigns of building houses, and social intervention focused principally on giving [[microcredits]], levelling education, [[technical training]], [[health plans]] and [[legal orientation]].
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==First simultaneous buildings. The projects of Argentina and Colombia are born in April 2003.==
After the success of the events of international building in the years [[2001]] and 
[[2002]], and the fortifying of the [[El Salvador]] teams it was decided to face a challenge even bigger. Coordinate the first simultaneous international building of ARFMC (UTPMP). To realize this, a series of foreign volunteers visited [[Chile]] in [[January 2003]] with the purpose of attending the summer university constructions of ARCH (UTPCH) and learn the way that the work is carried out in [[Chile]].
The benefits of this, during Easter week of [[2003]], the first simultaneous constructions were realized by ARFMC (UTPMP) en 2 countries of [[Latin America]]. The projects of [[Argentina]] and [[Colombia]] were born, on that date a total of 51 houses were built, adding to those houses that were being built in [[Chile]].

==Uruguay ARFU (UTPU), December 2003==
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==Communicational Campaigns==
During [[2005]] the first communicational campaigns were carried out by the local teams of [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]], [[El Salvador]] and [[Colombia]].
The results were extremely successful in as much as the positioning of the local marks. Two campaigns were developed in [[Uruguay]] (
[[July]] and [[December]]), two campaigns in [[El Salvador]] ([[July]] and [[December]]), one campaign in [[Colombia]] ([[December]]) and one in [[Córdoba (Argentina)|Córdoba]], [[Argentina]] in [[December]].

==New Challenges==
Thanks to this work, they have built to date more than 26 thousand houses, thanks to the volunteer workers of more than 100 thousand [[Latin America]]n youngsters. At the moment besides working for the consolidation of the local project of [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]], [[Colombia]], [[Peru]] and [[El Salvador]] already started, ARFMC (UTPMP) are in the process of starting to implement the project in [[Mexico]] and for the year 2006 it is hoped to incorporate 4 new nations.

=Vision=
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##Enabling in [[basic occupations]]: Enabling for populators of the [[settlements]], in different basic occupations in order to make them improve their working opportunities.

=Projections=
“[[Un Techo para mi País]]” has built more than 25 thousand [[emergency households]] in different countries around Latin América, like [[Argentina]], [[El Salvador]], [[Mexico]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Chile]], [[Peru]], [[Colombia]] and [[Uruguay]] and expects to reach de 30 thousand by the end of 
[[2006]].
Besides construction, we are in the process of establishing en each of these countries social intervention plans, whit the objective of developing abilities and competence in people and communities that live in these encampments, taking advantage of the opportunities that the Government, the market and society offer to overcome the poverty condition in an autonomous way.
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[http://www.untechoparamipais.org.uy/ Un Techo Para Mi País - Uruguay]

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