Bottino expressed “I contacted the Minister of Social Development, who kindly assisted me and informed me of some benefits that have been increased for our department based on the situation we are going through.”
The legislator pointed out that the hierarch “immediately contacted the National Director of Territorial Management, Alejandro Sciarra, so that he would be aware of some specific situations that he was raising.”
“They are starving”
The deputy stated that “in the tour that we usually do through the neighborhoods of Paysandú, we have come across entire families that do not have any social benefits and those families do not have a job. and you know what? Mr President, those families are starving”.
In direct contact with the neighbors, they tell Bottino that “they don’t have a basket, they don’t have social benefits” and in many cases, even “out of shame, mostly women, with a lot of dignity, when we leave the neighborhood, they write to us and say if we can get any kind of job, because what they tell us is that they don’t have enough to feed their children and that they are starving”.
This reality was raised by the deputy in the Territorial Office of MIDES and on the occasion “we were recognized that there are currently no baskets to distribute.”
There was a commitment with the National Director of Territorial Management “so that this can be solved quickly and I also have to admit that the Director promised that it was in the two neighborhoods that we were talking about in particular.”
The hierarch expressed that “it cannot be that there is hunger, a solution must be found so that this terrible situation can be reversed and that MIDES has to find some social benefit because these families work in very precarious situations, several of them work in the municipal landfill and they are going to be out of work because the municipal landfill is going to be outsourced”.
“Is he coming?”
Bottino emphasized “unfortunately we would have liked the Departmental Director of MIDES to also tour with us, because we have invited him, we have spoken several times with him, but unfortunately it seems to us that he was ahead of the electoral campaign because he is touring the neighborhoods, but he He does it in very humble neighborhoods taking photos with the neighbors and then, on his social networks, he uses the hashtag “he is coming”… he is coming because the electoral campaign is coming, he has already launched it and we are very concerned about it”.
Is now
The legislator pointed out “we want to tell the Departmental Director of MIDES that we invite him to tour these so destitute neighborhoods with us, to show his face in front of the people and that really, just like the Minister and the National Director of Territorial Management pledged to
look for a solution, he as Departmental Director of MIDES, stop considering “it’s coming” and do now, the solutions for those people because Paysandú has a very high rate of unemployment “.
Bottino stated that “in the quarter from January 2022 to March 2022 it was 7.3%, currently we are at 10.8%. In the quarter from January 2022 to March 2022 we had 4,100 unemployed and we currently have 6,200 unemployed. Regarding activity, employment and unemployment, Paysandú has an activity rate of 59%, an employment rate of 52.6% and an unemployment rate of 10.8%, as we have already said.
Secretary’s report of the deputy Cecilia Bottino
