Support for Shanty Town Eradication

In July 2009, Collahuasi signed the historic Techos para Tarapacá (Roofs for Tarapacá) alliance with the Un Techo para Chile (A Roof for Chile) Foundation, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and the También Somos Chilenos (We are Chileans too) Leaders’ Corporation, an organisation that represents shanty town inhabitants. The goal of this four-year project is to overcome the harsh housing conditions and social exclusion of the Tarapacá’s Region’s most vulnerable families, building definitive housing for 1,477 families from the 13 shanty towns that still exist in the Region.