3 months after the fires in epuyén families still live in tents – Anred

More than three months after the fires that swept Chubut, in Epuyén neighbors denounce that there are families who did not receive help and at the winter doors they still live in tents. They presented a note in the municipality, demanding that the subsidies be extended and in the IG account rebuilding epuyén spread a statement. “We collide with reality when three months after the fire we walk through the places we remain and we still see families living in tents, without basic services such as water. Arraining how they can under the rain and suffering the cold,” they say. And they point to the state aid that did not arrive: “What care plans and help from the ministries have with the victims who still have nothing and lost everything? Where are the seven billion pesos that the nation sent by the nation, what is the contribution of the provinic to Epuyén? The help does not arrive, and neighbors and neighbors do not remain motionless and organize collective work days To all the people and institutions that collaborate.

While yesterday the news was known that the national government of Javier Milei will send logistical and aerial support to combat the fires that occur in the genocidal state of IsraelEpuyén families disseminate a statement where they say that Three months of the fires did not receive help necessary and at the doors of a crude winter they are still living in tents.

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“Three months of the fire that swept the town half a town The promises of Governor Torres were not fulfilled When he came to announce help. Help is not for everyone, it is very slow and insufficient. We collide with reality when three months after the fires we walk through the burned places and We still see families living in tents. Without basic services such as water, fixing how they can under the rain and suffering the cold. Or when very old neighbors are drifting, crying and only have non -governmental community containment, ”they express in a statement that they disseminated from the IG by recontrurating epuyén.

And they demanded answers to Governor Ignacio Torres: “We demand that the governor warn that Epuyén belongs to the province of Chubut, Let the policy of abandonment and cruelty. We ask you to please come to speak and listen respectfully with the entire community to provide concrete solutions and take emergency measures, Epuyén needs it.

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They also said that the scarce and unique state aid It only remains to collect two cuisines of 350 thousand pesos for subsistence and that not all affected people perceived it: “Inflation on prices significantly decreases the possibilities of buying materials being that there are still families who have not even been able to initiate any purchase for reconstruction for reasons of government obstacles. Three months after the tragedy, the situation is traumatic. It is true that a few neighbors received some aid as tools or materials. Some started by their own means and with the help of neighbors to build their houses. But many others have not received anything yet. Nor do they know how to build a house. ”

The statement also highlighted the psychological, emotional damage left by the fires and the loss of their basic material things such as animals, their homes, belongings, tools and workplaces: “We tell the authorities that the damage is not only material, it is also a damage mood and we are all suffering psychic damage through posttraumatic stress. There are even neighbors who are suffering discrimination and are excluded. “

Finally they expressed: What care plans and help from the ministries have with the victims who still have nothing and lost everything? Where are the seven billion pesos that the Nation sent for? What is the contribution of the province for epuyén? And they thanked all the help of people and institutions that collaborate and allow neighbors to organize community work days to rebuild households.

According to the Patagonian medium Chucaostate aid contributions were limited to a food subsidy and another for rent for only four months and a voucher for purchase of materials for up to 20 million that had few beneficiaries. This voucher indicates neighbors that only reaches to build 32 square meters without pipes, or labor and can only be used in three corralones in the bag. While the rental subsidy of 350 thousand pesos Only those people who have a legalized contract and formal proof of property or rent could be charged. In the letter presented to the municipality, the residents of the Assembly require that subsidies at least extend for 10 more months in order to maintain subsistence While the resources for reconstruction still do not arrive.