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Fotograf\u00eda de Ra\u00fal Ben\u00edtez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

20 years ago this house was the held the hopes and dreams of a family of five. To purchase the house, they had to submit an application to the Rural Development Institute (IDA) of Costa Rica in order to be beneficiaries of a social housing program. This was in 1995. For the next almost three years, they suffered bureaucracy that felt like a form of punishment. Their application to access land purchase and payment facilities and help with the construction of the house passed from bureaucratic hand to bureaucratic hand and was only approved in 1998. The 52 year old Celia, rocking herself gently in a rocking chair, remembers those years.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2000, the three children, still under 15 years old, and their parents Celia Mart\u00ednez and Jos\u00e9 Quiroz, moved into the house that they had painstakingly built in Agua Caliente, a community located in Bagaces, canton of the province of Guanacaste, in Costa Rica. Then this place was a rural project still under development. Officials had just begun distributing\u00a0the plots and the financial aid for the construction of houses. When Celia and Jos\u00e9 with their three children arrived, there were no basic services. “Even to get water we had to get up early because one could only get water once a day for a limited time,” she recalls.<\/p>\n