(15 Dec 2024)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 14 December 2024
1. Women getting dressed as Santa Claus and a clown to participate in pre-Christmas celebrations
2. Cinthia Falcon, dressed as Santa Claus, pushing a cart that she uses for picking up recycling trash but with a bag of toys
3. Children react to the arrival of Santa
4. Doll
5. Falcon gives out presents
6. Children look at their presents
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosa Bordon, 38, mother of three children and unemployed:
"That is the first gift they receive. (I’m) moved, moved because I was never able to buy them a gift. Next year, I start studying (high school) to give them a good future. I will finish my studies and pursue a career."
8. Bordon crying
9. Children get ready for lunch at the soup kitchen
10. A child with a soccer jersey of Lionel Messi
11. Argentine flag
12. Daniana Garcia prepares the plates
13. Chicken with rise
14. Falcon gives out food
15. Matias Itati, 8, eating
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Itati, 28, mother:
"In the sense of economically, there are more and more hungry people. You can tell in the streets.
Reporter: And at your house?
In my house, there are times when there is (food) and there are times when there isn’t. I live alone with my son, and we survive like I tell you."
17. Sarai Fernandez eating
18. Decorations
19. Madeleine Bordon, 6, walks home with gifts in hand that she received at a pre-Christmas celebration
20. Madeleine and her brother Lautaro, 8
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Madeleine Bordon, aged 6:
"They give me a little surprise, a doll house with something inside."
22. Madeleine goes inside her home
STORYLINE:
In times of increasing poverty, a soup kitchen in the outskirts of Buenos Aires organizes a special pre-Christmas celebration with Santa Claus and presents.
With over 66% of children under 14 years of age living in households with incomes below poverty levels, some of the children received presents for the first time.
" (I’m) moved, moved because I was never able to buy them a gift.," said Rosa Bordon, mother of three.
The event, organized by "Los Chicos de la Via" soup kitchen, gathered two dozen families who live in shacks while waiting for promised housing put on hold due to the stop on public works by the far-right president, Javier Milei.
On the first anniversary of his administration, Milei managed to pull the South American country out of rampant inflation with a painful austerity plan that has pushed millions into poverty.
According to official data, monthly inflation lowered from 25.5% in his first month of government to 2.7% in October, the lowest in the last three years.
However, as a downside to his economic plan, poverty reached more than half of the population, and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted, with a projected decline of between 2.5% and 3.2% this year.
Key sectors such as industry, construction, and retail trade are facing significant difficulties.
Thousands of people, mostly unemployed and retirees, depend on soup kitchens to make ends meet.
Workers have had to double the food they have served in one of the city’s soup kitchens in the past year.
Meanwhile, overall consumption collapsed: in October, the year-on-year drop exceeded 20%, accumulating a 12.8% decrease for the year, in line with a sharp loss in the actual value of wages and pensions.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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