The latest surveys carried out by the Más Humanidad Foundation confirm the need to seek ways of articulation with the State that allow better support for populations in situations of social vulnerability.
The INDEC reported on the afternoon of September 26, that the increase in poverty in Argentina reached 52.9% of the population, and that there are already 5.4 million Argentines who live in poverty and depend on food to eat. aid. A report prepared by the Observatory of Human Development and Vulnerability, of the Austral University, based on data obtained from the Permanent Household Survey in the fourth quarter of 2023, indicates that Early Childhood in Argentina faces critical challenges that require addressing policies. comprehensive. The latest surveys carried out by the Más Humanidad Foundation confirm these data and the need to seek ways of articulation with the State that allow better support for populations in situations of social vulnerability.
The 52% are not figures, they are people who in the Más Humanidad Foundation have a first and last name. They are families committed to programs designed to accompany the exit from a situation of exclusion that begins by overcoming malnutrition. 52% is also a figure known by the Foundation, since it is the average number of cases of malnutrition that the censuses carried out in May and June showed in families with children under two years of age who live in popular neighborhoods of Tigre and Derqui.
“Education, Health and Habitat” were the dimensions that showed the critical situation in which early childhood is found in Argentina according to the multidimensional analysis prepared by the Observatory of Human Development and Vulnerability, of the Austral University. Early childhood, the future of the country.
Aware that the first years of child development and well-being are crucial to guarantee the healthy future of a population, for more than 10 years, the Más Humanidad Foundation has been working to eradicate poverty in Argentina, starting from populations where malnutrition is present. childish. Also aware that solving malnutrition is the first step, their approach proposal also includes the axes of Education, Job Training and Housing.
Along with the average malnutrition, the aforementioned censuses indicate that 60.2% of the population surveyed is malnourished, 62% of adults responsible for children do not have complete schooling, 52% of families live in overcrowded conditions and 47 % do not have a bathroom in their home as a place for hygiene.
Investing in comprehensive development during early childhood benefits the child and contributes to a more prosperous society, is a statement from the Human Development and Vulnerability Observatory report, and a certainty that mobilizes the work of Fundación Más Humanidad. Rescuing a child from malnutrition is rescuing a family from poverty. For this, a comprehensive approach that considers all dimensions of the person is essential, providing families with the tools to sustain the process they began by caring for children in highly vulnerable situations.
For this approach to be possible, sustainable and successful in terms of transforming a population, it necessarily requires coordination with the different state levels. But today the absence of human resources from the State has been accentuated. This is confirmed in the daily work of the Foundation, which in its relationship with entities such as the local service, classrooms, schools and rights section organizations finds responses only in cases of very high risk.
In a scenario of exponential poverty, which presents notes that make it different from the poverty of 40 years ago when there was a base of education, it is urgent that policies accompany this comprehensive view, articulating with social organizations that are the first force that receives a vulnerable population should be seen as allies.
Source: Ambito
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