The MDB candidate for the presidency of the Republic, Simone Tebet, visited, today (30), the “Mesa de Taubaté”. Created a year ago, during the pandemic, by the city hall of the interior of São Paulo, the initiative distributed around 300,000 soup dishes in just over a year. Food is produced in a pilot kitchen and ingredients are donated by people and entities.
The project also offers the Mesa Taubaté Card to replace basic food baskets. It gives families greater autonomy when shopping, allowing them to choose products that best meet their needs. The program injects around BRL 700,000 a month into the local economy.
Speaking about her policy to fight hunger, if elected, Tebet said that eradicating extreme poverty and killing hunger are absolute priorities. The emedebista said that around 500,000 social workers and community agents will have 30 days to identify those who are hungry in the country. “Everything so that a boy like Miguel, 11 years old, from Belo Horizonte, doesn’t have to call 190, the Military Police phone, asking ‘for God’s sake, come here, I haven’t eaten for three days’”, said when recalling the case that was widely reported in the press recently.
Tebet also defended that municipalities have autonomy over the Single Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico), which brings together the federal government’s database with information on families living in vulnerable situations in the country. For her, it is necessary “to return this system to those who know how to manage, to those who know how to take care of people, which are the municipalities.” Simone promised that the income transfer of R$ 600, an amount guaranteed until December 31 of this year, will also be made next year.
This afternoon, still in São Paulo’s ABC region, Simone Tebet visits the São José dos Campos Caminhada Technological Park and the city’s Municipal Market. At night she does a live with supporters.
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