January 22, 2025

By Claudio Altamirano

YPF has funded electrical work at the Pablo Neruda Shelter School in Carapacho. The roof was blown away by the Zonda a month earlier.

The Carapacho School made national headlines on October 28 when the strong Zonda winds “blew away part of” the roof of the school building, built in the Malarguino Desert. The Mendoza government completed the repair work in one week, but the school that houses over 100 children and teenagers from the vast Malargue rural region, was always without electricity.

Members of YPF – a local company – learned about the problem and immediately started to organize help to build a brand new system. The old one was outdated. In a later stage, they planned to use solar energy. . YPF secured the funds, and transferred them to La Chata Solidaria NGO, who completed the initial stage. The educational authorities told SITEL ANDINO this was a “celebration” shared by teachers and students, “because we don’t have electricity at eleven at night.”

The new wiring at the School 4-205 Embajador Pablo Neruda in rural Carpacho that was funded by the oil company YPF has been completed this week. This work was financed by the non-profit organization La Chata Solidaria. This hostel, which is located in Malargue 70 km southeast, houses students from the primary and middle levels.

Roxana Solorza, the director of the Pablo Neruda School, said to Medios Andinos, that building located near the Laguna de Llancanelo Natural Reserve and a landscape surrounded with desert slopes, “doesn’t have electricity” permanently. The generator is powered by diesel fuel.

Teacher: “We do have energy in certain times of the day” – “in the morning, and in the afternoon.” This situation, the teacher said, was well known by representatives from YPF Malargue. It motivated the two stage project. The first stage will involve the construction of a brand new electrical system that will also ensure the safety and security of the entire community. In the second phase, solar panels will be installed on the infrastructure.

Since more than a century, La Chata Solidaria, an NGO, has carried out social work at different places in Argentina, thanks to the donations of dozens and volunteers. The tasks range from providing food and medicines to building infrastructures in hard-to reach places.

Jeronimo C. Chemes, founder and president of Chata Solidaria told SITEL ANDINO that, before returning to Buenos Aires from his trip, they had completed their work at the Pablo Neruda School, a project that “they planned a year ago” with the people of YPF, which allowed them “to change completely the electrical installation of the building,” a system that was previously “very unstable.”

In another section of the discussion, Jeronimo said, “We don’t work on promises.” He highlighted that all funds obtained are used exclusively for the work budgeted, as in the Carapacho School, whose funding was provided by YPF. He later said, “Transparency in all its forms is the only way to go.”

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