Molina family
Foundation
I grew up watching my family inaugurate various institutions, which over time, I realized did not come out of nowhere, but was the product of a lot of effort, of many people who got involved, a lot of will and a lot of love.
I grew up watching my parents work hard to convince the authorities to obtain resources for various community causes and since government resources are always limited, for this my own family will have to make various efforts, materializing with the donation of land for the Casuto School, Community Chapel and even for a population.
I grew up watching hardworking people work in various volunteer activities to raise funds for causes of real need for the population.
I grew up seeing poverty although I wasn't within it, but I knew the sacrifices of people of effort how they built modest paradises where before there was simply nothing.
I grew up watching those humble paradises collapse in the face of an unexpected earthquake that we are used to coping with, but this meant losing the sacrifice of a lifetime and being forced to start all over again among the ruins.
I know powerlessness.
The impotence of seeing modest people lose their houses, all their belongings and even their lives in an unexpected and raging fire.
Seeing the neighbors run desperately, with all the will to help a victim but in the sector, the minimum means to put out a fire were not available.
I met Urban Isolation.
Despite residing in a sector close to the capital Santiago and that the nearest city
Los Andes remained only
18 kilometers away, among a swarm of endless alleys, it took us hours in the days when horses, carts or bicycles were used, because in In those times there were no paved roads, only a
51's Chevrolet truck belonging to my father, a few agricultural tractors or some radio with noisy interference.
It was then that I also saw my family that in their conscience they noticed the shortcomings not only in the sector, but in the country, that you should not wait for others to come for you, but rather you should get down to work to prepare and equip the community for a better quality of life.
Our ancestors arrived with the conquerors and manifested themselves in the
Choapa Valley and for a long time they manifested themselves in the neighboring
Longotoma Farm in the mediations of its
Catalina de los Ríos and Libesperg, better known as
La Quintrala by the
17th century.
The following century, don
Juan Molina arrives at the
Almendral sector in San Felipe and his son
Patricio Molina Córdova acquires the first lands in the
Rinconada commune, first in the
Las Bandurrias sector and then in
Casuto.
In the middle of the
17th century, the Molina family began to forge constructions, being the pioneers in the formation of the
Commune of Rinconada in the years
1935 until Don
Patricio Molina Suárez stood up as
Mayor of Rinconada de Los Andes, bringing very early the first advances to the commune such as the
system of electric lighting recently invented by
Edison and
Tesla and
Bridges in
Casuto and in the
Pocuro river in what was then
Real Street of Rinconada.
When my parents,
Mr. Patricio Molina Molina, married
Professor Mrs. Rudith Correa Villaleiva, the family was strengthened by the fortuitous addition of his father-in-law,
Mr. Enrique Correa Gallardo, who was the forger of several of the most important institutions in various areas in the city of
Los Andes as:
The Society of Artisans and Industrialists, The Association of Merchants of Aconcagua, Club Aucas and the Fire Department, founding both, father-in-law and son-in-law, a new
firefighter institution in
Rinconada.
From the marriage of my parents, they founded a series of institutions for the commune such as: The
Patricio Molina Suárez town,
The Casuto Chapel, The Casuto Stadium and mainly the
Casuto School along with other advances that were not less extensive than numbering.
In
Los Andes, he founded the
Center for the Disabled of Los Andes.
From here we come to a current
fifth generation, that of my son
Patricio Fádel Molina Khouzam, whose early talent as a pianist was also able to continue our family tradition of helping others.
In
1998 he organized a concert at the
Cathedral of San Felipe to raise funds to rebuild the barracks of the
Fourth Company of this city that was sarcastically damaged by a fire, what this collection and the awareness of both the community and the authorities to rebuild it and make it operational.
When he went to
New York, in
2004, he was only
13 years old, he forged his studies, obtaining
two doctorates and a
Master's degree in different specialties of
Musical Arts, which is why he was appointed
Director to found the new
Newark Conservatory in
New Jersey.
This position allowed him to connect with various people and institutions that donated musical instruments, especially pianos, founding, together with other Chileans at heart, a group called "Notes for Growth" that is, "Notes to Grow" specifying the sending of more than thirty pianos with a goal of 88, a piano for each piano note, as well as scholarships for young talents in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Lebanon and Syria.
Due to the accumulation of works from five different generations of our family, we will separately individualize in detail the works of each one of them in the attached links.
The efforts were severe, difficult and human memory is very fragile and sometimes ungrateful when forgetting them and the new generations must know that the advances and works that they enjoy today were not made alone, that the authorities did not have the capacity to do them but that they are product of the tenacity of people working for a better quality of life.
Currently, people, especially young people, cannot imagine the sacrifices that our first inhabitants of the country suffered to achieve the progress, comfort and security that they currently enjoy and they should know it because: nothing falls from the sky, everything is achieved with effort, with real sacrifice and when success is achieved, the satisfaction is full of having complied with society and especially with oneself.
Only in this way do human beings truly grow, when they see what their spirit feels when an objective is achieved with effort.
This is the reason why this foundation was created, not only to preserve the work of our ancestors but to continue our tradition of creating new advances and opportunities for our people to have a better Chile for this country that we love so much.
All the works that my family carried out were always done putting God first, because we are pious people, of faith.
Patricio Molina Correa
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