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TECHO, also known as Un Techo para mi País (UTPMP) (Spanish for A Roof For My Country), is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes youth volunteers to fight extreme poverty in Latin America, by constructing transitional housing and implementing social inclusion programs. Working with more than 720,000 volunteers, it has constructed houses for over 102,400 families in 19 countries in Latin American and the Caribbean and 2 offices located in Miami, FL, USA and London, England that work as funds hubs.〔TECHO. ("Volunteers" ), accessed November 25, 2012.〕 Un Techo para Chile was formerly a separate organization. As of 2012, Un Techo para mi Pais and Un Techo para Chile became one single institution called TECHO.〔TECHO. ("Why Are We Techo Today?" ), accessed November 25, 2012.〕 ==History== Un Techo para Chile was founded in 1997 by Jesuit priest Felipe Berríos, along with a group of university students. In 2001 it began expanding to other countries under the name Un Techo para mi País. In 2012 the name was changed to TECHO.〔TECHO. ("Today We Are TECHO" ), accessed November 25, 2012.〕 The organization has a long history of responding to disaster situations, such as earthquakes in Peru (2007), Haiti (2010) and Chile (2010). TECHO was one of the first organizations to start building houses after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and it was awarded a grant from the Inter-American Development Bank to build 10,000 houses there.〔Inter-American Development Bank. ("Un Techo para mi Pais builds housing in Haiti with IDB support" ), accessed November 15, 2010.〕〔Inter-American Development Bank. ("A Roof for Haiti" ), accessed November 15, 2010.〕 Building began in Canaan, Haiti in 2010. Notably, TECHO coined the term Precaria (country) as a framework for visualizing Latin American poverty as a country. This has been adopted by numerous leading figures including the former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, writer Isabel Allende, and Argentine corporate social responsibility expert Bernardo Kliksberg.〔Precaria ("Ambassadors of Precaria (in Spanish)" ), accessed November 25, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TECHO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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