Accion Volunteers Make Man's Dream
Come True in Slums of Venezuela
New York (UPD In a dingy
slum of Caracas, where cab
drivers refuse to go because
Communist bands burn cars,
two young American girls are
satisfied over the success of
their cooking .school. Even
the local Communist leader
wants to be listed as a
sponsor.
At Sierra Maestra, in the
heart of Venezuela's pro-Castro
country, a young Califor
nian looks up from the wheel
barrow he is repairing and
grins at the new brick and
steel community center be
ing built.
More than 700 miles to the
east, water rushes through a
2.000 foot pipeline for the
first time to the village of
San Felix and another Ameri
can smiles.
These projects are among
17 operated in Venezuela by
a group called Accion, all be
cause a 28-year-old former
Wimbledon tennis player
dreamed one day at this
kitchen table.
Joseph H. Blatchford, the
tennis player, dreamed of a
private peace corps in De
cember, 1960 and Jerry
Brady, 26, and Gary Glenn,
25, fellow law students at the
University of California,
agreed.
The three students man
aged to raise S90.000 from
businesses, foundations and
charities in North and South
America and about a year
later, Accion was born. 1
Accion volunteers today
live in the slums of political
ly explosive Venezuela. They
help build schools, commu
nity centers, water systems
and small industries. Thirty
five Americans are serving in
the South American country.
Ten are women. The volun
teers serve for 18 months and
receive S150 a month. They
get travel expenses.
The private peace corps
hopes to have 60 Americans
In Venezuela by next sum
mer. The U.S. Peace Corps
has 67 volunteers in the
country and 23 training to go
there.
Blatchford heads Acclon's
operations in South America.
Brady is in charge of the
New York office and Glenn
handles recruiting in New
England. Accion hopes to re
cruit volunteers in Canada as
the next step to expanding
the corps. .
Volunteers do not have an
easy time. "It's a tough life,
there's no getting around it,"
says Brady. "Most of them do
not have lights or running
water."
"We believe there are
things that can be done with
out the massive Alliance for
Progress type aid," Brady
aays. "We're actually in the
business of bringing these
people together in a commu
nity." ;
"We're trying to bring
about a new community spir
it, a spirit of self-help in these
slums - what you might call
a town hall mentality, local
problems solved locally.
"We're trying to give the
people a new independence
. . . cut the old dependence
in Latin America that every
thing comes from the govern
ment." Suzy Navarrete, 29, of Los
Angeles, Calif., and Winifred
Marich, 24, of San Pedro,
Calif., discovered a hodge
podge of wood and cardboard
when they moved into a slum
on the outskirts of Caracas
1st January. The slum is a
Communist stronghold.
"We looked for some com
munity organization to work
through, but none existed,"
the girls wrote. "Nor was
there any community aware
ness or consciousness."
The volunteers gained the
help of some natives, rented
a building for $50 a month
and started a community cen
ter. Soon there were classes
in cooking, sewing, English
and literacy.
At Sierra Maestra, where
Castro's influence is still
strong, George Armenta of
Monterey Park, Calif., hears
natives speak proudly of
their . community center.
"Like nothing in this barrio,
this community center is
ours," the Venezuelans says.
And at San Felix, where
for IS years the people had
to buy water at an almost pro
hibitive price, there is a 2,000
foot pipeline thanks to David
Smith, 20, of Berkeley, Calif,
and Talton Ray, 23, of Pine-
hurst, N. C.
"We went down there
strictly as an experiment to
see if Americans could do
this work effectively," says
Brady speaking of Accion's
35 volunteers. "The experi'
ment appears to be succeed
ing."
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