The province issued an internal statement accessed by Perfil Córdoba informing that it has relieved 483 distributed dining rooms in the majority of the neighborhoods of the capital of Córdoba and in some cities in the interior, which it assists with food modules. This figure is far from those announced by the same official in charge of Social Emergency of the Ministry of Social Development and the Secretary of Social Policies and Human Development.
The survey brings a little light to all the fog that does not reveal concrete data about the purchase of food and actual distribution of social aid that are purchased with the taxes and fees that all citizens pay.
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In statements to other media, Cristian Heredia presented himself as General Director of Social Emergency of the General Secretariat of Social Development of the province and one of those responsible for an “investigation” carried out by the portfolio led by Laura Jure, which revealed 740 dining rooms and picnic areas. At the weekend, Raúl La Cava, responsible for the municipality’s aid, assured that there are some 2,600 “community spaces” in the more than 500 neighborhoods of the capital. The report itself states that there are 483 “centers.”
Everything recorded, without margin of error
The same province, during the pandemic and the management of former Minister of Social Development, Carlos Massei, implemented a internal control system which ended up becoming the best tool for management and control of aid by the province.
Everything arose from the need to make the delivery of food transparent by the General Directorate of Social Emergency. The delivery drivers and ministry employees often could not find the addresses or those responsible when they delivered the bags. They say that in this way they discovered “non-existent dining rooms at service stations” or “in gated communities.”
The board came to be named among those who used it as “The social rappi”, like the name of the world-famous app. The staff authorized to circulate during Covid restrictions were not many and this gave them great service.
Almost massively used by the distribution, officials or workers had the obligation to validate assisted dining rooms and picnic areas, take a photo of the addressthen geolocate it and even record all the data of the person responsible.
Own Martin Llaryora He learned about this tool when he was mayor and asked to adopt her. This “app” was developed by the same managers who responded to the Schiarettista official.
This is the best record that the province has and that the municipality itself uses. There is no other. Based on these data, we analyze what was delivered, to whom and when. This medium requested access to that information and at the moment the necessary authorization was not provided.
Who are they helping?
According to the records of the ministry led by Laura Jure, the “Today (survey for the month of May) the Province assists 483 soup kitchens/snack areas with some type of help”.
Everyone should get some $100,000 per month, as part of the “economic fund”. In December, according to the documentation of the outgoing Minister of Social Development, 409 economic modules were delivered for $200,000 to each dining room or picnic area. The extraordinary sum was “a kind of bonus” to avoid leaving people who go to these centers without food during the months of January and February, when authorities and signatures in the banks or authorizations change.
Delivery continued with 386 in March, 391 in April and 270 in May. The decrease in the number of places attended exceeded 200, according to the records.
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From March to May, according to an internal document, the amount of each food module amounted to $126,000 for each institution and They plan to increase it in July to $200,000.
For its part, the capital municipality ensures that it delivers a monthly contribution of 100 thousand pesos per month to each of the 2,600 “community centers” that it has registered. They accuse that 260 million pesos were granted monthly. The name “community center” is not clear; perhaps a small room is added to the dining rooms that provides another type of support to the community. From the La Cava portfolio they express that “they are centers that provide food to the most needy sectors of the Capital, but also other assistance, such as school reinforcement and training for employmentFor example”.
Assistance is not in cash, it is done through the Active Card (from Banco de Córdoba), with which the representative of each community space acquires the food or other elements they need for it to function.
From the province they expressed in an internal communication that the requests for withdrawal are “93 because the control detected that They weren’t working“.
Politicians love to be “Santa Claus”
There are many leaders and politicians who receive “food modules” every month. These “boxes” are made up of nine dry foods. It is estimated that the value of each one amounts to $100,000, although many doubt the real cost, the products and brands that make up that “aid” are far from spending that amount to acquire them.
Councilors with a lot of contact with Mauricio Macri or radical legislators of “many years” who have been in the Unicameral for a long time receive hundreds or thousands of these “modules” to distribute. Nobody quite understands why they are the ones and not the same municipality or province. final responsible. Nobody complains. It is always good to arrive with food to a poor home to “do politics.”
According to partial data from the Ministry of Social Development, modules were delivered to 120 institutions in February, 153 in March, 168 in April and 213 in May.
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In the text they assure that “during February 10 modules were granted per institution, while between March and May this assistance increased to 20 modules per dining room.” Does this mean that many received up to two million pesos?, taking into account that each module has a value of $100,000.
The common criterion for attendance, they clarify, is that no institution receives a number less than one hundred people; all places provide food at an average between 130 and 180 adults and/or children. “Something that is far from reality,” say social workers who have daily contact with the picnic areas or dining rooms. “There are some that have that many people, others that manage to feed or snack 70 and do it for more days, everything is very fluctuating,” they describe.
The statistics are there. Control and authoring tools exist. It will remain in the hands of the same officials who can use it in the best way so that the “few” provincial and municipal resources reach the necessary hands.
