Playing to overcome problems

One year after the quake and the tsunami which followed it, the film shows the slow and difficult rebuilding of Dichato. Material rebuilding first: the coastline, formally the principal source of income for the local population, is still just a building site. And then social re-building: children and parents still living in provisional camps, which broke the strong community bonds and the mutual aid which existed before – not to mention the family members of whom they have no more news.
Tierra de Esperanza, a partner of Terre des hommes, has with protected play areas, clay workshops, play and educational activities, succeeded in reforging the bonds between the children, and it provides them with a protected area so that they can recover their self-confidence and grow up as any other child.