This cultural project attempts to:

1. Compile, document and depict the arrival and development of the Chilean political refugees community settled in northern California.

2. Acknowledge our own cultural, political and social contributions to the surrounding latinamerican communities.

3. Pay tribute and recognition to individuals and/or North American organizations that supported our community in its gestation period.

5. Transform this project into a reference tool of reflection and education for newer generations of Chileans that were either born or grew up in California.

6. Make this project part of the greater catalog of reference documents, Memoria Chilena being compiled by the Direction of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DIBAM) in Chile.