Puerto Rico has faced many challenges including economic, environmental, and political. Often the insufficient response from the local and federal governments generates immense demands for community organization and resilience. In 2017, after the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Rosario González, and other residents of Caguas, broke into the abandoned María Montañez Gómez elementary school of Las Carolinas, Caguas and opened a food kitchen for her community in crisis. Over the years, she and a team of volunteers have come together to provide food and services for the elderly. Our goals are to assist the CAM in planning with the municipality for future directions, provide outreach for their space, and generate resources for their promotion and growth. We realized these objectives by creating a presentation and brochure, budgets, databases, a real-estate catalogue, and painted a parking lot for the cultivation of their organization. After accomplishing these goals, we were able to leave them with valuable contributions to the evolution of their organization and place of operation.

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Creator

• Diaz, Francisco
• Quattlander, Madison
• Johnson, Abigail
• Turner, Benjamin

Subject

• Community
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 122237
• E-project-043024-221611

Advisor

• Burrier, Grant A.
• Jiusto, Scott

Year

• 2024

Center

• San Juan, Puerto Rico Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Centro de Apoyo Mutuo: Las Carolinas

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Date created

• 2024-04-30

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-043024-221611

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-05-17