History, Wonder Tales, Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends Living in a Shanty Town

SANTA CLARA HISTORY
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STORIES FROM SANTA CLARA, CERRO NAVIA, SANTIAGO DE CHILE

WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
It’s not my intention to even try and
write the complete history of the
village of Santa Clara, Cerro Navia,
Santiago de Chile.
However, for more than 35 years
now I have been hearing and
reading stories about Santa Clara
from members of my family who
lived in Santa Clara for many years,
and from people of Santa Clara.
I have spent a couple of weeks in
Santa Clara myself, but above all:
I am Edgard (Eddy) Adriaens
from Nederhasselt-Ninove, in
Flanders, Belgium.

I have had the pleasure and honor to meet
and get to know some of the fine and
courageous women who invested their
time and energy, their life, into changing
Santa Clara from a dump for displaced
slum-dwellers into a village where hope,
support and real chances are offered to
all those who believe in creating a better
world for themselves and their children.
Should you not agree with any of the
stories that I am planning to write, please
feel free to react and correct or complete
my words where necessary.

There is no such thing as One Truth. Especially not when it comes to
interpreting and writing about the history of people. But this should
never refrain us from telling Our Truth.

A SHANTY TOWN NAMED CLARA ZETKIN
This is a story of a girl in her early twenties, inspired by one idea: to help the neediest people she could find. She eventually
found her way to a shanty town in Santiago, Chile, as part of a Mill Hill Mission. Soon after her arrival in Santiago, she took
the dramatic decision to give up the “standard approach” to “helping slum dwellers”. Instead of staying in a comfortable
place herself and supporting the people of Clara Zetkin from there, she built her own wooden cottage inside the slum and
went to live with the people, share the dirt and poverty with them and fight together with them for better living conditions.
For more than 12 years, she lived with the people from Clara Zetkin. The first half of this period, she shared their lives in
conditions unworthy of man. The last part, she accompanied them in the new social barrio to which they were displaced,
named Santa Clara.
This is the year 1978, and the girl I am writing about is my sister, Marlies Adriaens.
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Marlies was the third of seven
An other sister, preparing to
A period of specialized courses and
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children and grew up in a deeply
continue the sister’s job at Hogar de
preparations followed. Then came a
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Catholic home in Terjoden, a small
Cristo, finally could not go. With
surprise telephone call from one
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village near Aalst in Flanders,
her mind meanwhile turned to the
Antonia Beentjens in Holland: Would
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Belgium. After graduating as a
sufferings and needs of the poor
she be interested in a joint trip to
nurse, she took short courses in all
people in Chile, Marlies promised
Chile? Six months later, the two girls
sorts of practical things. Whilst
the sisters that she would go to Chile
found themselves lodged with two
working as a nurse in a hospital in
herself to help the people who most
separate families in the suburbs of
Aalst, she became friendly with a
Santiago, to learn Spanish.
needed her help and assistance.
nun who had just returned home
from Chile.