02/05/2021 13:29
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/05/2021 1:29 PM
Every afternoon the employees of La Helvética Bakery in Constitución see a repeated scene: dozens of families
queuing
in search of leftovers at the end of the day, before the store closes.
This historic bakery located in the heart of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, in San Juan at 2300, receives hundreds of people from the beginning of the pandemic in search of bread and leftover bills, although María, one of the employees of the trade, acknowledged in dialogue with
TN
that "in recent months
there are more and more people
."
The change in recent months, María said, was resounding: “Before there were 20 people, now we have 300, many are clients from here.
They tell us that they lost their job and come to ask to take the family.
Sometimes what we have to give is not enough ”.
The images were disseminated on social networks, when a user registered a line of two blocks of people waiting with their cloth bags in hand to receive the leftovers from "La Helvetica."
The bakery "La Helvética", on the corner of Avenida San Juan and Pichincha, Contitución.
“Our clients used to come to buy bills, cakes and
now they come to get 20 pesos of bread
.
They ask us a lot what time they can come to take what we have left over, at 6 in the afternoon there is already a line of people, we close at 8 in the evening ”, said María.
The woman recalled that at the beginning of the pandemic one day there were 400 people waiting in the block of the premises.
The owners of the bakery decide to produce in quantity every day even though "sales have dropped a lot."
And what is left "is donated to the people every day."
After the dissemination of the images of the place where she works, María recalled a couple who live in the neighborhood, who were always clients and who "before bought bills and bread and today they come every day to look for leftovers to give to their four children. She is a doctor and he is a nurse, they both lost their jobs in the pandemic. "
"It's very sad what is happening, everyone," reflected Maria.
According to data from the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University (UCA) released in December 2020, due to the recession and the crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic and quarantine, poverty in Argentina escalated again.
In one year, it
increased from 40.8% to 44.2%
of the urban population: there are 18 million poor people.
If the rural population is included, there are 20 million poor people.
Of these totals, indigence rose from 8.9% to 10.1%: 4.1 million urban indigents or more than 4.5 million if the rural sector is included.
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