In Argentina, there are more and more people living on the streets...until 2023, there were around 9 thousand, but today the number exceeds 12 thousand...in the absence of government support, organizations are emerging that effectively help these people regain their lives and their dignity. Our colleague Fabian Restivo gives us the details. teleSUR
00:00Meanwhile, in Argentina, there are more and more people living on the streets.
00:03Until 2023, there were around 9,000, but today the number exceeds 12,000.
00:08In the absence of government support organizations on emerging that effectively help those people regain their lives and their dignity.
00:14Our colleague Fabián Castillo with details.
00:17Talking about people living on the streets in Argentina is complex because IT touches on several issues.
00:24Some of these people approach various institutions with different needs and interests.
00:28Melissa Heckleiner, from the Multipolar Foundation, explains.
00:35Today we estimate that there are more than 12,000 people living on the streets.
00:40The last population census was conducted a few years ago and showed that there were more than 9,000 people living on the street, but that was two and a half years ago.
00:50The Multipolar Foundation guides those who are trying to get their lives back on track, and the network of institutions is essential for this.
00:57What we do is work with that portion of the population that is living on the streets and is in a position to start thinking about working.
01:08Each group we work with is renewed every two or three months and consists of 25 people.
01:14There are steps to take before reaching the workshops, but where do you start with those who have just arrived?
01:21Nestor Santi, social worker, speaks from his experience.
01:25People who come here are looking for a little love, tenderness, and hope, because they are pretty broken.
01:41I mean, life on the outside is pretty hostile.
01:45But there is no pattern, they come from the streets of Buenos Aires, which well deserves its reputation as the city of Yuri, and every life is a universe.
01:56Those who are homeless have usually been homeless for quite some time.
02:04Lately, there are more and more people living on the streets, but those who have been there for a while, in an institutional setting,
02:11encounter people who, on the other side, those who serve them, there is no empathy.
02:16They are badly treated.
02:17There is no gender perspective.
02:22That is what I mean when I talk about violence.
02:25There are being a number of statistics, and people forget that they are people with a story, with a life.
02:33A person who is on the street is not there because they want to be there.
02:40No one likes to sleep outside.
02:42No one likes to have to decide every day what to eat or look for a place to sleep.
02:46It is important to understand that being on the streets is the result of a series of events in a person's life that lead them to be alone,
03:02without a support network, without the possibility of feeling worthy of an opportunity.
03:09When the state is absent and fails to meet the needs of the people, someone in society looks for ways to help those people,
03:18creating a space that restores their humanity, based, of course, on understanding.
03:23That is the complexity of understanding the situation on the street, on the street.
03:28It is not those who want to be there, but those who can be there in the negative sense.
03:32From Buenos Aires, for Telesur, Fabián Restivo.
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