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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