Nuns cater to tourist trade
By DANIEL DROSDOFF
SAN CARLOS DE BARI-LOCHE, Argentina (UPI)—A woman of imagination and enterprise is Rose Cavina, Mother Superior of the Little Sisters of Our Lady of Rosario.
Five years ago the Little Sisters, of an Argentine order of nuns that specializes in education and hospital assistance work, ran out of money and were forced to halt construction on a two-story school building four and one-half miles from Bariloche.
"We just went broke," said Sister Rose who heads a team of four nurses at Bariloche Hospital, the only hospital in town. A 40,000 peso ($11,428) government grant wasn't enough to complete the job.
For a while the Sisters fretted. Then Sister Rose, 59, got an idea: why not raise money the way everyone else was making money in Bariloche—catering to tourism?
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It just so happened that the 8.6 acre lot where the building was under construction was located on the road to the Llao Llao Peninsula, a 14-mile stretch of scenic highway along lake Nahuel Huapi and connecting a string of hostels, motels, hotels, cabins and estates.
The Little Sisters, with their own muscle and some help from the townfolk, built five vacation cabins.
"The cabins are paying, and the school will be finished shortly," the Mother Superior now says with satisfaction.
They were built with pine, hammers, and nails. Doors and woodwork were donated by a rancher who was tearing down an old farmhouse at a nearby hacienda. A pump was installed to bring water from a nearby mountain stream.
The cabins, which can hold a total of 27 visitors, are heated by wood stoves. Near them is a vacant lot where campers can park cars and pitch tents for 150 centavos (43 cents).
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"They said I could head the school once it's built." She is aided by the four sisters of the same order who work in the hospital.
The cabins of the Little Sisters of Rosario are well known to the businessmen of Bariloche. Their rates are highly competitive, around 11 pesos per night per person ($3.14), about two thirds the going price.
The nuns do no advertising, but in two-and-a-half years the word of the cabins has spread rapidly.
"I have reservations for the skiing season months in advance," the Mother Superior said.
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