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In recent days, there was a great stir over the complaint made to the National Government for 5000 tons of food that it has stored and does not deliver to social organizations. In that sense, the Justice ruled that the Nation must deliver these foods before its expiration date. For the task of redistributing said food, the Conin Foundation.
As reported yesterday from the administration of Javier Milei, Its role is to “through 64 distribution centers, its dining rooms and picnic areas, facilitate the provision of more than 465,000 kilos of powdered milk to vulnerable social sectors.” In that sense, he added: “The delivery of the merchandise will last two weeks, taking into account the expiration dates of the products. To guarantee fast, efficient logistics without intermediaries, the operation will have the collaboration of the Argentine Army and the Ministry of Defense.”
Regarding the role of conin, determined that “it must certify, through the presentation of reports, the periodic progress and in a final report, the effective use of food by the canteens.” This is because the ruling party claims that almost half of these picnic areas did not function correctly and that even 16% of them never existed.
The head of the NGO, Diego Alvarez Riverosaid that the distribution will begin in the 22 centers that the institution has in the metropolitan region and in dining rooms sponsored by them. “We don’t know the details of the day and time,” Álvarez Rivero clarified in a conversation with the radio. Miter, but he specified that “today the Army trucks leave from the two depots that the national government has in Villa Martelli and in Tafí Viejo (Tucumán).” And he added: “They are going to start, according to what they informed us, with the centers of the AMBAin Buenos Aires and the Federal Capital.”
He scandal over stored food There was a back-and-forth of complaints between the Government and the Social Organizations. On the one hand, the management of Milei It intends to push aside the middlemen of many benefits, so in March it cut off the food supply in an attempt to carry out an audit. On the other hand, the leaders of the groups denounce that in the last six months the soup kitchens did not receive assistance from the Nation.
According to its official site, the Cooperator for Child Nutrition (Conin) It is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Abel Pascual Albino in the province of Mendoza, in Argentina, on September 4, 1993″. This has the purpose of fighting against child malnutrition in our country. To do this, they took the model of CONIN Chile, devised by its founder Dr. Fernando Mönckeberg. It is about establishing Treatment Centers that follow the case of each of the children who suffer from hunger.
In the case of Argentina, the creation of the Centers for the Prevention of Child Malnutrition and Human Promotion was added. The “CONIN Family” was also formed, a network of Centers distributed throughout the country of different organizations that work towards the same objective.
Since its creation, conin already has 100 recovery centers in 17 different provinces. It is estimated that at the national level the NGO helped 30,500 children to recover.
In February, the Ministry of Human Capitalin charge of Sandra Pettovellosigned an agreement with coninby which both parties committed to working on the fight against child malnutrition. It is since then that their relationship arose, which may explain why the foundation was chosen for the mission of distributing the food that the Government had stored in warehouses to the canteens.
Abel Pascual Albino, the creator of the foundation, is a native of Morón, he studied medicine at the University of Tucumán. Once received, in 1972, he traveled to Chile to do a specialization in pediatrics. Furthermore, he is a medical doctor. Albino is a practicing Catholic and had left the political scene after being questioned about his statements. In 2018, during the treatment of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) law, he spoke out against the legalization of abortion and He assured that the condom “does not serve” to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. In 2015, in a radio interview, he said that “homosexuality is a problem” and that “masturbation is an addiction.”
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