It's 9:30 am and on
Rivadavia at 8700
there are trays with slices of bread spread with dulce de leche.
They also pass several jugs with coffee and tea among the people who lived in the house that collapsed in Floresta and now wait meters away to recover their belongings and find a housing solution
.
According to what they say, they receive support and donations from social organizations, churches, schools and neighbors.
They are sitting on mattresses,
there they spent the night.
“
The solidarity of the people
makes us feel good, to see that they care about us”, says Marvin, who lived in the house that collapsed with
his wife, his two-year-old daughter, his aunt and his nephews.
She says that the Buenos Aires government offered them
accommodation for a week and a short-term subsidy,
but that is not enough for them.
"We lost everything, we don't have our clothes or our documents
, we need help that lasts for a while to be able to rearm ourselves," says Marvin, who says that even
his baby's birth certificate was left inside the house.
The affection and empathy of those who came with a plate of food, a mattress or non-perishable food stand out.
“They came from the school where the 12-year-old girl who died attended
, from a church and from some social organizations.
It is something that we are very grateful for”, says the man, who had been living in that house for 16 years.
The day after the Floresta collapse.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
Persy, who lived in the same house, details that there are about
100 people who stayed on the street:
“We are talking about
70 adults and 30 children
.
We try to place the children with friends or relatives so that they don't get cold and suffer as little as possible from everything that is happening to us”.
She works as a therapeutic companion and says that the
25,000 pesos that she is paid per assisted person
is not enough to support her three children and rent.
Persy lived in the Floresta house that collapsed.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
He also points out that his eldest son, who is studying Law, is missing school to help the family:
"He started doing odd jobs because we live from day to day."
Diana, who has three daughters, ages 5, 8 and 17, doesn't know how to go on.
“
I am alone with them
.
Now I left them at a family friend.
They went to the same school as the 12-year-old girl who died, they knew her and played with her.
The little ones ask me when we are coming home
and I don't know what to tell them, ”she explains.
Diana has three daughters and works as a street vendor.
She lived in the house that collapsed.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
“I want to preserve them, so they don't see what we're going through, but the reality is that
I don't know what I'm going to do.
They went to school full time and, at that time, I went out to work as a street vendor.
These days I'm not sending them because
they don't even have her backpacks”,
she shares and says that she needs help to find a place to live.
"That's what's urgent," she adds.
Two people died
as a result of the collapse
.
The fatal victims were identified as Jefferson Aquino (19) and Gabriela Jamile (12).
More than 20 people were injured and nine of them were hospitalized.
At press time,
Felicitas Cherre, 72, was still missing.
This Thursday, after noon,
the arrival of a crane
hired by the Buenos Aires government was celebrated with applause.
It is the way, as explained by the officials of the City Assistance Guard, to begin to lift the rubble from the collapsed slabs.
They were
precarious structures,
supported by two beams that also ended on the floor.
Due to the passage of time and the
excess weight
of the constructions that were added illegally, the two slabs collapsed and caused the tragedy.
With the crane they will begin to remove the heavy rubble
, with which they will be able to reactivate the search for the only person who is still missing and later perhaps allow the entry of the affected families, so that they can begin
to recover something of what they lost.
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