Building a Future

An agreement

The Executive Director of the Asociación Los Andes de Cajamarca (ALAC) and District Mayor from Huasmin, province of Celendín , signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement in order to finance jointly the construction of classrooms in three educational institutions in the villages of: Chilac N ° 08, Coñicorgue and El Lirio, which belong to the district of Huasmin.

This initiative is part of the combined efforts of ALAC, the Conga project and local government. With this agreement we can improve not only the schools infrastructure, but also the life and safety of many children.

District Mayor Huasmin expressed satisfaction with the signing of the agreement and emphasized that "the only way to achieve meaningful development results in the villages is by working together the public and private institutions."

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Beyond Cajamarca

As part of the Livestock Development Project, 41 producers from 16 villages in the area of influence of Conga did an internships in La Libertad, Lima and Arequipa.

With the aim of improving livestock production, participants received training on topics such as dairy cattle management, pasture production, animal health and milk quality.


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Better stoves, better quality of life

The kitchen is one of the most important places in our house, because the daily menu for the family is prepared there and most of the housewives, in company of their children, spend a lot of hours of the day there.

In the kitchens of Celendin, people traditionally cook with firewood maintaining in this way the delicious and characteristic smoked taste of our Andes. But this also causes respiratory complications, pollution with toxic smoke, burns and other problems because of the bad conditions of some stoves in Cajamarca.

What does Conga suggest?

Improve the family economy and give more security to the families of Celendin without losing their tradition.

For that we have given till today 243 improved firewood stoves to the families participating in the project which thwart the lack of firewood, avoid the smoke, and reduce the time of cooking and the most important things: provide commodity and hygiene to the families.

An excuse

On 27^th of September, at the Primary Educative Institution of Quengo Rio Bajo, we organized a kermesse so that benefitted families and volunteers could fraternize. Likewise, the construction of stoves became an excellent opportunity to interact and have a good time knowing each other between the workers of the Mine Yanacocha /Conga Project and our neighbors.

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