PUERTO RICO RISES CORP
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Mission Statement
During emergency response: To guarantee supplies and aid are distributed directly into the hands of those that needed the most. During non emergency phases: To create spaces where communities develops, the leader grow and the individual get empowered.
About This Cause
WORDS FROM OUR FOUNDRESS & CEO First of all, thank you for your attention to our project and for the time and resources you devote to helping organizations achieve their goals. This project was born as a direct result and in response to what we have been actively working for over 2 years in which we have made pilots, changes, and the necessary adjustments based on the needs of the population we were impacting. Puerto Rico Rises has been able to feel first-hand the needs of our people, families and communities. Our task, from the moment we started to this day, has been faithful and consistent with our mission: to ensure that aid and supplies reach directly into the hands of those who need it most. The type of supplies or the aid needed are changing, expanding or decreasing according to the stage in which we find ourselves, but they continue to be crass necessities for the complete development and well-being of our people. For the past 18 months, we have been implementing our programs and projects from our operational center in Aguadilla. However, we understood that we could do more and that we had the capacity to expand. This is how the project of opening CEDECO (Center for the Community Development) in 6 strategic points of our Island was born. "The more we entered the communities, the more we understood that their needs went far beyond food and water. Then, we knew immediately that we should work to find the solution". Taking into account the disastrous situation that causes the permanent closure of 300 schools, which leaves over 27,000 students without a classroom and 2,000 teachers without jobs, we focus our efforts to retake those buildings in disuse and in some way, return them to the community. With the implementation of our 12 programs, plus the amplitude of impact that the areas of La Escuelita, La Plazita, La Finca, El Teatro and El Terminal will create, we are ready to put this project into execution at its maximum capacity. CEDECO purpose is to contribute so that the Island can surpass itself after that happened in this particular disaster, but, to recover stronger and prepared to achieve greater equity, prosperity and justice. The goal is to create a resilient and proactive community that works aimed at achieving better outcomes, with an economy more solid and diverse that will result in a healthier and happier population. A place where everyone wants to live at. Thanks for your support. Sara Lopez Foundress & CEO