The tower of the Zero Hunger
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 2:17 pm
When I was a child, Argentina was a nearly rich country.
By mid '70s people below poverty line were about 5%.
From 1976 a dictatorship applied an economic plan based on the Chicago School of economics theories. The bureaucrats, working on that, were known as 'The Chicago boys'.
The main target of the plan was to destroy the industries. They achieve that, resulting in a huge income transfer to the banks.
By the end of the dictatorship (by 1983) people below poverty line was about 20%.
After that, a democratic government tried to revert the situation without any noticeable results.
By 1991 another democratic government applied an economic plan based on guidelines known as 'The Washington consensus'. This plan was applied for about 10 years and it was devastating.
It ended in early 2002 with about 60% of the people below poverty line. Every day, you could see entire families, carrying their stuff in carts, stirring the garbage looking for food and sleeping in the streets.
From then, different administrations tried to improve the situation with partial success.
Today, the situation is better, but you can 'see' the poverty in the streets yet. This is a terrible situation, specially for the children.
An organization called 'Por Los Chicos' (For The Children) had created "The tower of the Zero Hunger" in order to prevent hunger in children in Argentina.
They do not are asking you for money.
You only must to leave a message to a kid. This will add a 'brick' to the tower and it will cause that a sponsor donate a food package (a 'brick' for the tower).
The site is: http://www.porloschicos.com/
The site is in Spanish, but it can be easily translated using any of the translation tools available.
Thanks for your help.
By mid '70s people below poverty line were about 5%.
From 1976 a dictatorship applied an economic plan based on the Chicago School of economics theories. The bureaucrats, working on that, were known as 'The Chicago boys'.
The main target of the plan was to destroy the industries. They achieve that, resulting in a huge income transfer to the banks.
By the end of the dictatorship (by 1983) people below poverty line was about 20%.
After that, a democratic government tried to revert the situation without any noticeable results.
By 1991 another democratic government applied an economic plan based on guidelines known as 'The Washington consensus'. This plan was applied for about 10 years and it was devastating.
It ended in early 2002 with about 60% of the people below poverty line. Every day, you could see entire families, carrying their stuff in carts, stirring the garbage looking for food and sleeping in the streets.
From then, different administrations tried to improve the situation with partial success.
Today, the situation is better, but you can 'see' the poverty in the streets yet. This is a terrible situation, specially for the children.
An organization called 'Por Los Chicos' (For The Children) had created "The tower of the Zero Hunger" in order to prevent hunger in children in Argentina.
They do not are asking you for money.
You only must to leave a message to a kid. This will add a 'brick' to the tower and it will cause that a sponsor donate a food package (a 'brick' for the tower).
The site is: http://www.porloschicos.com/
The site is in Spanish, but it can be easily translated using any of the translation tools available.
Thanks for your help.
