In El Bosque, La Pintana, Central Station, Puente Alto and other communes (municipalities) where low-income families prevail, but even in more affluent areas, the population has come to solidarity under the motto «the people help the people» in the absence or late arrival of the meager resources provided by the government to mitigate the crisis.
A report from the newspaper El Siglo indicates this Tuesday that only in Puente Alto, the most populated commune in the country and with serious social problems and poverty, at least fifty popular food points were installed where food rations are delivered to poor people, without employment or income.
The government recently began distributing two and a half million boxes of food for a value of 30 thousand pesos (about $ 37), but its distribution is progressing slowly, in addition to which, according to the authorities, only 70 percent will reach 40 percent of families who need them.
Lina Sandoval, leader of the National Association for Human Rights October 18, one of the many solidarity groups of neighbors that promote this initiative, reported that this work is the product of the work of all those who participate in the Political Social Assembly of the Cordillera Province.
She said that only in five common pots: Villa Arco Iris II, Olla Digna Bajo de Mena, Nuevo Amanecer, «Oscar Bonilla» and La Raimapu, are delivered in total about 600 daily rations.
The pots are supplied with donations of money and products collected through campaigns on social networks, said Lina, who pointed out that it is «pure solidarity of the people with the slogan» The People Help the People».
According to Lina, the situation of many people is dramatic and she relates that those who have stable work, with the corresponding permits, go out to work, «but in the commune, the majority of people have informal employment, the fairs are full of people who sell their products, even anything, to survive day by day”.
He adds that “many people go out to sell to have an income, although a small one, up to date.
They leave taking the risk of being taken prisoner, to become infected. There are sectors of Puente Alto in which neither the police nor the military enter because they immediately have a confrontation with the people. ”
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