Desde el 2007, La Casa De Mayten pasó de ser solamente un proyecto comunitario de respuesta ante desastres naturales a un proyecto enfocado a largo plazo en la generación constante y duradera de iniciativas creativo-educativas pro salud integral, cultivo de relaciones y emociones saludables, programas en terápia de artes expresivas, organización y liderazgo comunitario, y programas de alcance e intercambio socio-emocionales-culturales para niños, jóvenes y adultos de bajos recursos.
Ya son 10 años que nuestros humildes programas y actividades van promoviendo una cultura de amor, valor, bienestar compartido, calidez, creatividad, union, aprendizaje constante, dialogo honesto, comunidad, risa, y un intercambio genuino entre personas muy diversas que vienen de Chincha, todo el Perú, y más de 35 paises del mundo. Seres maravillosos vienen a Chincha a compartir sus talentos, habilidades,
trabajo arduo y experiencias sin costo alguno, a cambio de la
oportunidad de conectar y ser enriquecidos tambien por el trabajo integro y la increible gente con la
cual trabajamos. 
Hoy, La Casa De Maytén continúa ofreciendo sus servicios voluntaria y gratuitamente y generando con ayuda de todos los que participamos de este trabajo, nuevas posibilidades, oportunidades y alternativas para que sigamos creciendo, sanando, aprendiendo a ser integramente, y creando y construyendo más sanas y amorosas vidas en compañia...en comunidad.
La Casa De Maytén aspira a seguir siendo oportunidad, alternativa, posibilidad, y sincera invitacion a conversar, a contemplar, a considerar, a redefinir si queremos, a encontrarnos siempre en acuerdos y en desacuerdos, a construir, a reir, a sentir, a crecer, a pensar, a vivir, pero sobre todo a crear juntos caminos visibles e invisibles hacia el bienestar integro de todos en un sin fin de maneras. Actualmente, La Casa De Maytén esta luchando como propuesta comunitaria auto-gestionada por mantener su vida, por que quiere seguir siendo un proyecto que respira, que vive, que crece, que aprende, que se evalua, que cambia cuando es natural y necesario, y que se transforma y comparte siempre. Con su ayuda, sé que nuestra historia sera larga y bien nutrida por el esfuerzo conjunto suyo y nuestro y por la amistad que siempre quiere seguir creciendo y construyendo caminos nuevos y saludables en compañia.
ENGLISH VERSION
LCDM HISTORY: In 2007, just months after leaving my job, home, family, and life in the US to return to Peru, an 8.0 earthquake hit Chincha, devastating the community I grew up in. I knew I had to go back, and I did right the way. No words will ever express what it felt like to return to my community after so many years and finding it shattered. Seeing my neighborhood collapsed, I decided to put together all of my personal resources, a team of volunteers, and the material donations I had received from friends and colleagues in Cusco (Thanks Cusco, Thanks Ausangate Bilingual School, Thanks PeruEtico, Thanks Cruz del Sur) to establish La Casa De Maytén, a self-sustained community project that would offer a variety of free services to people, particularly children and youths in neglected communities in Chincha. The first several months of the project’s activities were focused on responding to the immediate needs left in the wake of the earthquake: with help from volunteers and community members from 48 neighborhoods, we organized more than 85 community kitchens, organized free comprehensive health campaigns, brought clothes, food, and temporary construction supplies to thousands of people, using teams of volunteers to build shelters and a temporary school. Simultaneously, we also began offering free creative-educational workshops rooted in the expressive arts and well-being cultivation to children, teens and adults. 
Since 2007, La Casa De Maytén has grown from a disaster relief effort to a long-term project focused on generating lasting initiatives pointed at improving comprehensive well-being, cultivating healthy communities, relationships and emotions, offering violence awareness and prevention programs, community organizing and building, and cultural-educational outreach and community exchange activities for people in marginalized neighborhoods. 
10 years after the earthquake, I am happy to say that La Casa De Maytén continues to: offer free services to the people of Chincha, generate creative alternatives and opportunities to constructively break cycles of neglect, violence and poverty, cultivate meaningful community relations, and build as a community through hard, creative work new possibilities and paths for a healthier life and future. 
For more than 10 years, our humble programs and activities have been promoting a culture of meaningful exchange where incredible volunteers from around the world and Peru come to offer their talents, skills and experiences free of charge, in exchange for an opportunity to connect with and be enriched by honest community-led work and by the amazing people we work with. 
Today, as a self-sustaining and self-financed community project, LCDM continues to work hard to stay alive as a different proposal towards community building, and as a source of new possibilities, opportunities and alternatives for many kids, youths, and adults in Chincha and beyond. LCDM aspires to continue to be opportunity, alternative, possibility,
and a sincere invitation to dialogue, create, contemplate, consider,
redefine, meet each other in agreement and disagreement, build, laugh,
feel, grow, think, live, but above all BE wholesomely and courageously,
and together create inner and outer paths towards the wholesome well-being of all
beings. Currently, our project is fighting as a different community
proposal to keep its life! LCDM's struggles are rooted in its
commitment to continue to be a project that breathes, lives, learns,
listens, evaluates itself, changes when natural and necessary,
transforms, dares to be all it dreams of being, and shares itself
without requiring a monetary charge. With your help, I know our daily efforts to be, cultivate,
and build differently will yield the most extraordinary fruits, and our
life and history will be long and well nourished by our joint efforts and
contributions, and by a sincere friendship that wants to keep growing and
working in loving company.
