Volunteer Oct24. organizing the new house for volunteers!

Ciao, Hola and Hi!

I’m Rio Rojas Mayorga, and I’ve been helping set up the new apartment for volunteers. Let me tell you about the process of organizing this future home for us!

In case you didn’t know, ESC volunteers previously lived in an apartment within the Caritas enclosure. However, for various reasons, it was decided to move us to a new place in the city center.

The person in charge of preparing this apartment was Fabiano, a 65-year-old volunteer. Since he had multiple apartments and projects to manage, progress on this specific one was quite slow. So, to give him a hand, I offered my time and enthusiasm to compensate for my lack of any real knowledge of construction or renovation!

The house had almost everything we needed, but the problem was that it was all disassembled. It took a couple of months of assembling furniture, deep cleaning every piece, and rearranging the house fittings over and over. For most of the process, the end felt so far away.

We started first with the kitchen, where for the memory, I left our names written.

Continuing with the rooms and the storeroom… It really needed lots of work, but finally, we reached the point of fixing the thing that had been visually bothering me the most: removing the sofa that had been sitting in the middle of the living room for a year. After that, everything started to feel more on its way. It is previewed to be used firstly by me with the next volunteer that should arrive at the beginning of april.

However, this experience left me with two remarkable feelings. First, an appreciation for that house, built piece by piece over weeks, with the hope that it will be used by future volunteers, just as I did, to contribute to this incredible project. And most importantly, the great bond I formed with Fabiano. Through all this time and work together, I learned not only how to build a closet but also a lot about the city, its history, its dialect, patience in many aspects, and so many of Jesi’s customs.

I really hope this house becomes a home for lots of us :)

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