"For more than four decades, this place received thousands of tons of garbage from the state capital, Oaxaca de Juarez, and its metropolitan area. But the Santa Cecilia School of Musical Initiation, located a short drive from the city center, has been a driving force in town, broadening horizons for children and entire families, who, over the past 15 years, have learned to master a wind or string instrument."
"The Santa Cecilia School is located in Vicente Guerrero, which originally was a settlement founded in the 1980s by garbage collectors. The district, with 15,910 inhabitants, has high levels of marginalization and poverty: 38% of residents don't have social security and, of the 5,292 homes, 34% don't have drinking water, 12% don't have drainage, and 1% lack electricity."
"In 2011, Father Jose Renteria and a youth group launched a project to promote art and culture. Every Sunday, the mothers would go to the Saint Bartholomew Church to sell pork rinds, sandwiches, and snacks, to finance the music teacher's salary. But the increase in enrollment led us to look for other forms of funding."
Villa de Zaachila in Oaxaca, Mexico, once received thousands of tons of garbage from the state capital, creating severe environmental and social challenges. The Vicente Guerrero settlement, founded by garbage collectors in the 1980s, faced extreme poverty with 38% lacking social security and significant deficiencies in basic services. In 2011, Father Jose Renteria and a youth group established the Santa Cecilia School of Musical Initiation to promote art and culture. Over 15 years, the school has provided wind and string instrument training to thousands of children and families. Initial funding came from parents selling food at church, but the growing enrollment necessitated additional support from foundations like Air France Foundation, enabling the school to expand its mission and create pathways to university education and local cultural development.
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