History
| Un Techo para mi País was founded in Chile in 1997 by a group of university students. These students, along with Felipe Berríos S.J., were appalled by the country’s deplorable slum conditions and were compelled to take an active role in denouncing extreme poverty, thus giving birth to the UTPMP project. Un Techo para mi País invites the society to recognize the injustices of poverty and acknowledge its responsibility to address the lack of opportunities and the poor living conditions of the most marginalized families in Latin America and the Caribbean.
UTPMP began its international expansion in 2001 and has been reinforced since 2005 by the support of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Un Techo para mi País is currently working in 19 countries in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. UTPMP headquarters in Chile coordinates the efforts of local offices, each of which shares basic goals and methods, while adapting the project to the particular challenges of poverty in each country.
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