This measure was formalized through a communication addressed to the Secretary of Energy, Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo, thus consolidating a decision that had been anticipated at the end of April and that required administrative procedures for its implementation. However, the latest bills sparked concern in different establishments, such as the picnic areas and dining rooms in Trelew.
HEART DINING ROOM
Edilia Bastidas, head of Trelew’s “Heart Dining Room”, referred to the arrival of natural gas service bills, which began to reflect strong increases in values compared to the previous month.
In dialogue with FM EL CHUBUT, the neighbor said that the bill went from 5 thousand pesos to more than 133 thousand pesos. “Today I can’t pay it, because just on Saturday I bought food to get me through Wednesday,” she revealed.
In this sense, although he confirmed that thanks to the collaboration of the community, this month he hopes to cover the value of the bill, he expressed concern about the coming months because that will be when the consumption of the coldest months begins to arrive.
INCREMENTS
“I think we’re going to get there well,” he confirmed, pointing out “it’s being collected, I’ve got about 88 thousand pesos, so I think we’re going to get there well.”
“If this month came like this, the next month will come more or less the same – but – the issue is the other two months, these coming months, which always come more expensive,” he acknowledged.
The neighbor said that the soup kitchen provides food assistance to between 90 and up to 125 people daily, pointing out that in many cases the families do not have any source of income.
«We have a minimum of 90 meals a day, the first weeks it always drops a little; But at the end of the month we already reached 120, 125 meals a day, from Monday to Friday,” he quantified.
He explained that these families are also affected by the increase in services, but also in food, generating a complex panorama for these people given that “you have people who do not receive anything, they are unemployed or grandparents, who are the ones who receive the least; “The majority receive nothing.”
ASK FOR COLLABORATION
“You don’t have to do a lot of math to realize that it’s not enough,” added Bastidas.
Finally, he informed the alias of the account to which interested parties can collaborate:
dining room.heart (MercadoPago). In addition, interested neighbors can personally approach Saavedra 682 in the Tiro Federal neighborhood, to make any type of donation, “no matter how minimal the collaboration, it adds up because together we will reach what is missing,” he concluded.
