LA FILA DEL HAMBRE: AUMENTA LA DEMANDA EN COMEDORES POPULARES
En un comedor popular del barrio de Constitución, la fila para recibir raciones de comida se alarga cada día más.
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En un comedor popular del barrio de Constitución, la fila para recibir raciones de comida se alarga cada día más.
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00:001235 to another mobile, live with Leo Godoy to Constitución, Leo, how are you?
00:09How are you, Facu? Well, we are here in a popular dining room in the Constitución neighborhood,
00:15on Salta Street, 1000, a line that has just started because at 1 o'clock the food is going to be delivered,
00:22but every day more are delivered. There are 300 rations that are delivered per day,
00:28and every day new people join this line to come and get a plate of food for their family.
00:37Here you will see the bread that is prepared, a fruit. We have already helped Soledad and the whole group,
00:43who luckily have been able to do many things. Hello Soledad, how are you?
00:46Hello, how are you? All good? Hello to the floor, to all of you. How are you?
00:49How are you Soledad? How are you?
00:51We showed a little while ago and now we are going to enter, but we wanted to show the line first,
00:56because every day it continues to grow. Yes, it is growing a lot more, it is regrettable,
01:02but I want to thank all the production, to you, that thanks to you we are buying food.
01:08Today we did not get anything of what is fresh chicken or meat. Today we bought chicken to make it for people.
01:13The truth is, we honestly have the help, but 100% of the people who donated, I am very grateful,
01:19because we were also able to do some jobs here in the humidity that we have in the place of our work.
01:23I am very grateful to each person who donated little by little and from that we are doing wonders here.
01:28But there is also a reality that at some point it will end and there we will be in trouble again.
01:33That is why I ask people to please continue to help us.
01:36Now we are going to show everything that we are doing with the help of people.
01:39We are here working for the retirees, the people on the street and the neighbors who need us the most at the moment, right?
01:46Well, Soledad, tell us what profile, how are you? Good afternoon, thank you for receiving us.
01:52Hello, how are you? Good afternoon.
01:54What is going on? Families, people getting younger, people getting older, what do you see?
02:00I am seeing a lot of people in a street situation because of the same system that, well, the issue of rents could not be solved.
02:08People are charging anything, the rents, people are in a street situation.
02:13Grandparents charge very little, they do not have to choose between renting or eating.
02:17And then the people on the street, there are more and more people in a street situation.
02:21We are also asking for help for this type of people, because we do not solve only with a good tray of food.
02:26People have to get out of the street.
02:28We all have to do and help.
02:31Now I collected some donations of clothes that I have here, because when it rains they get wet and cannot bathe.
02:36So what do they do? They throw the wet clothes and put on the dry clothes.
02:40With that we are also helping a little, that is, food is not also a solution,
02:45but we also need disposables, clothes that people do not use, that they can bring us here in Salta 1045.
02:51I do not know, from a package of flour, an oil, milk.
02:56For the children they send me two boxes a week and I make a snack twice a week, school support.
03:00I mean, all that counts with the volunteers, with my person.
03:03I mean, it is very difficult to maintain all this, because it is not only, it has to do with money, but it has to do with body support.
03:11Of course, today you are not receiving any kind of contribution from the state, or are you?
03:17What we are receiving from the city today, we do not receive, and the people of the city are looking at me like this,
03:24from the elephant, no meat, no chicken.
03:26Milk for the children, two boxes of powdered milk only.
03:30We cannot work like this, we want to do good.
03:33Here we really work, we have been for many years.
03:36What we need is that the food stays here, that it comes to our dining room.
03:40And donations, nothing?
03:43Donations, we had people from here ...
03:45No, no, no, no, donations.
03:48Donations, nothing, zero. Petrobelo is not giving anything.
03:51We have been here for five years, before the new president took office,
03:56which we respect if we have nothing against, but the truth is that when he took office, they did not give us anything else.
04:01We cannot solve the dry issue, that is, to be buying constantly,
04:05leads to the fact that at some point we are left without a peso,
04:07and we really need each peso, because here we rent among all, and we also pay expenses.
04:12It went up twice.
04:13So we have to go out and ask for help again.
04:16I ask again, please, with all due respect and with all the gratitude of the world,
04:20to each person who had the empathy to collaborate with our dining room.
04:24And thanks to you who are on the floor, for paying attention to us,
04:27here to Leo, to the cameraman, and to all the producers who always worry to see if we are well,
04:32if we need something. What we are doing is a charity work towards the other.
04:36The people is the other, and here we are with all the people, street situation,
04:39grandparents who cannot pay a piece.
04:42Here I have a grandmother on this side who tells me that she pays 250 thousand pesos for a piece
04:46and that she charges much less in retirement. How can she eat?
04:49And also, Soledad, Javier Díaz speaks to you.
04:51And also what we do, and we have to tell you, is to control you,
04:57because we have helped you so that you can have money to be able to do it,
05:02and we want to know what you do with that money, that it is not bad to do it too.
05:06No problem.
05:07We don't say it because we distrust you, but because it is logical to show people
05:14that what they give to help serves to help others.
05:20Exactly, and that's how that money is used to help people.
05:24Here we are going to show you everything we did in our workplace,
05:27all the things we were able to solve.
05:29A pipe loss, let's say, the humidity that was there,
05:33to buy benches so that the children can sit when school support comes.
05:36We bought some gas for the people, we bought merchandise that we are now going to show you,
05:41disposable arrangements, tuppers, blankets that we did not have, kitchen utensils,
05:47everything, everything with the help of people.
05:50And it is perfect that you control, because just as you control here,
05:52you have to control everywhere because you have to do things as they should be.
05:55Things as they should be.
05:57The help has to be in the place where it corresponds, which is here where we work,
06:00and in the dining rooms that are really feeding people.
06:02I think it's perfect.
06:03Sure.
06:04Soledad, I wanted to ask you, a few days ago I was talking to a social referent from another neighborhood
06:07and he told me about a phenomenon that surprised him.
06:09Also in Capital.
06:10Also in Capital, a more middle-class neighborhood.
06:13What he told me was that a phenomenon that he saw in this crisis, unlike others,
06:18he told me, it's not so much that I have more people asking for me,
06:22but that the same people who ask for me need much more.
06:26And I wanted to know if you saw this same phenomenon or is it different in your area?
06:30Yes.
06:31That is the problem we have.
06:33Here, for example, we have a row of fifty-odd people, but what happens?
06:38Each family has an example.
06:40There are children who come and ask for a large pot,
06:43because in a tray they will not be able to, in two hands they cannot carry eight portions.
06:46Then they bring a giant pot for eight or nine people per family group.
06:50If they take into account that eight or nine people for each person with ten people
06:54are approximately 100 portions.
06:56That's why we talk about the 300 portions.
06:58We have complete families where there are children who also keep the food for the night,
07:03because sometimes they go to school.
07:05What this government does not have is that there are children who go to school because they are going to have lunch at school
07:08and they do not have to pay it because the parents do not have it.
07:10So what they do is keep the food in the dining room for dinner at night,
07:13because if they don't, they drink maté cocido at night.
07:15The phenomenon is interesting because it is people who were already out of the system
07:19who are getting further and further away from being able to enter.
07:22Unlike other crises that were leaving more people out of the system.
07:27It would be this same event in the zone.
07:29Exactly.
07:30That is a big problem that we have.
07:32We have assembled families where a person comes and asks for a large pot or a large tupperware for the whole family group.
07:40Because with two hands they cannot cover everything.
07:42Now the children are at school, they keep the food for the night.
07:45And we cannot deny it because we are going to have lunch, not dinner.
07:48But I can't deny it, I can't deny it in any way.
07:51Because I know what it is, as I told you, I come from that angle
07:54and I understand perfectly well that the mother keeps it for the night or for the next day.
07:58Because they freeze it and eat it again.
08:00Let's see, Soledad, if with Leo we can go out there whenever people want,
08:03to tell us, register some testimony.
08:05There are people who prefer not to go out there.
08:07Of course, all that is understandable.
08:10Yes, we have already spoken.
08:13Yes, yes, we have spoken.
08:14Look, especially what Soledad said, we met with an older adult who wanted to go out,
08:20but well, he has that problem.
08:22A rent, and as we talked about it last time with the man who was also here in the dining room,
08:26280,000, more or less, a room comes out here in Constitution.
08:32And then almost 90 to 100% of what is the retirement goes there.
08:38Then you have to go out to try to find food somewhere else.
08:41That's a topic.
08:43Hello, how are you?
08:45Good.
08:46Well, I see you, ready, coming to look for food, obviously.
08:50Yes, because I don't have to cook.
08:52How is your situation? How many are from families?
08:55We are two, but also a street situation because they don't want to go to the city to park.
09:00Sometimes in some diners they don't refuse to eat.
09:03The only one who doesn't refuse to eat is her and in Pedro Shower.
09:07They don't give food, but if they don't get the food, how can they not give food?
09:12Are you worried because it's your only place to eat?
09:15It's my only two places, here and in Pedro Shower to eat.
09:17Are you with your daughter?
09:18Yes, with her.
09:19How old is she?
09:20Nine years old, birthday already.
09:22Are you going to school?
09:23Yes, now it goes.
09:24Now it goes to school.
09:25But I have to grab the food.
09:27I ask you, where are you from?
09:29Dominican Republic.
09:30Was the situation there very different?
09:33Or when you arrived in the country it was different and then it became more difficult?
09:37It became more difficult.
09:39That's why I had to stay.
09:41Once I came here, I couldn't return to my country.
09:45You came with the intention to work, to be here and then come back some time.
09:50I'm going to work now, see if I can.
09:52It's all in the clouds.
09:54It's all in the clouds.
09:55How much is a pochoclo?
09:57One and a half lucas.
09:58How much is a potato?
10:00One lucas.
10:01How much is three kilos of potatoes?
10:03Five lucas.
10:04How much is a kilo of squash?
10:07How much is a broth?
10:08One head of garlic or two lucas?
10:10And how do you live like this?
10:11And you live in the street?
10:12In a hotel next door, but they don't give me a budget.
10:16How much do you pay for a room?
10:18190.
10:19Per day?
10:20Per month.
10:21Per month.
10:22That is, almost 200,000 pesos per month.
10:25When I go out with my aunt, I go out to ask for a room.
10:28For a room for both.
10:30For both.
10:31Because I don't dare to live with anyone.
10:34More than anything for her.
10:35For her, to protect her.
10:36To protect her and not to oppose her.
10:39To take care of her.
10:40Because the street is complicated.
10:42And so that she has her privacy.
10:44Because she is a big girl.
10:46So, well.
10:47Nothing, send us the food.
10:49That, at least.
10:50That's what we could ask for, at least.
10:52First, the food.
10:53Without the food, we don't do anything.
10:55We starve to death.
10:58Hello, how are you?
11:01How are you?
11:02No, I prefer not to talk.
11:03Hello, how are you?
11:04How are you?
11:05What can I tell you?
11:06I don't know.
11:07I imagine.
11:08I imagine it must be hard to have to line up to get a plate of food, right?
11:12Yes, it's difficult.
11:14This has never been seen.
11:16In Argentina, this has never been seen.
11:18This has never been seen.
11:19So many countries that came in the First and Second World Wars,
11:22they found work.
11:24They came starving.
11:26And?
11:27How were they in Argentina?
11:29Look, the Argentines...
11:30How old is the lady, Leo?
11:31This has never been seen in Argentina.
11:33How old are you?
11:3485 years old.
11:3685 years old.
11:37And I imagine that you have lived another time, another time where you could...
11:41Imagine.
11:42I studied, I worked and I retired.
11:46And what happened?
11:48What happens to all Argentines.
11:51But others live on roasts, lunches.
11:57It's difficult, I imagine.
11:58How...
11:59What retirement do you have?
12:00The minimum?
12:01Yes.
12:02And what does it cover?
12:03To pay for the hotel.
12:05The hotel, right?
12:06How many rooms are there today?
12:09240, 200.
12:10So the retirement is almost taken away from you in a place to be able to live.
12:15Yes, yes, yes.
12:16If it weren't that you take care of the clothes, take care of the shoes and all that.
12:21I don't know.
12:24And what do you feel after so many years, 85 years?
12:29I imagine a life of work.
12:31You retired from having to come and do this line today.
12:35I don't want to talk anymore because I would have to make history.
12:38Sure, sure.
12:39Well, what's your name?
12:41Silvia.
12:42Silvia.
12:43Well, thank you very much.
12:44Leo, please, Silvia.
12:45I hope you can get better.
12:47Thank you for these minutes.
12:48Wait, Leo, I'll give you time for another testimony.
12:50Fede, how are you?
12:51How are you?
12:52It's hard, isn't it?
12:53Yes.
12:54To see when someone who has already passed...
12:56Has already left life active, right?
12:57Yes.
12:58And ends up like this, in a line of hunger, having to claim for food and praying,
13:03crossing your fingers, so that there is food in the dining room you attend, right?
13:07Yes.
13:08Yes, it's tremendous.
13:09The numbers of poverty, how they have multiplied, especially in children and older adults,
13:16it's something, it's something tremendous.
13:19Besides, let's think that the other day I was looking at a study,
13:23how 64% of social security beneficiaries charge the minimum wage.
13:27That is, we have a whole range, from the minimum wage to the maximum,
13:31but in reality everything is concentrated there.
13:33Well, wait for me, Leo, settle down, I'll be back in a few minutes, there in full constitution.