President Alberto Fernández today headed the first meeting of 2021 of the Argentine Federal Council Against Hunger, in which it was announced that the CAF – Development Bank of Latin America – will provide a loan of 300 million dollars to finance the Alimentar Card .
It will be added to the approved one at the end of 2020 for the same amount.
“I want to thank CAF because it has helped us a lot the previous year, when it financed 300 million dollars and it is allocating us another 300 million dollars that are central to achieving the objectives we want to achieve,” said Fernández, who previously held a meeting with the head of the multilateral organization, Luis Carranza Ugarte.
During the virtual meeting from the Olivos Residence, the President expressed his concern about the cost of food, and underlined: “It cannot be that this development opportunity turns into a price increase.” .
“We are concerned and busy with those who need it the most, those who are in the worst situation. The State will continue to be present to help them at this time of economic expansion, but which may not necessarily reach them,” said the head of state.
Along these lines, Alberto Fernández affirmed that his “claim to the return of ethics is also addressed to the one who produces, because the first commitment has to be with the society in which it is developed.”
As indicated by the Presidency in a statement, the Government ratified that “as of the third Friday in February 2021, the amount that will be deposited in the Alimentar Card for families with one child will go from 4,000 to 6,000 pesos and for those with more than one child it will be from 6,000 to 9,000 pesos. “
Fernández was accompanied by the Minister of Social Development, Daniel Arroyo; the head of the National Council for the Coordination of Social Policies, Victoria Tolosa Paz, and the head of the CAF, Luis Carranza Ugarte.
For his part, the Minister of Social Development specified that “in 2020 we have achieved food coverage, we went from 8 million to 11 million people we reached, and we have managed, together with the great social network that Argentina has, to support the situation”.
Meanwhile, Tolosa Paz indicated that the impact of the Alimentar Card can be observed in “the economies where it is injected, because there are notable improvements in employment, work and local businesses.”
In addition, he called to continue working so that the State can “guarantee and articulate the implementation of policies that lead to definitively banishing social inequalities in childhood.”
In turn, the head of the CAF, Luis Carranza Ugarte, ratified “CAF’s commitment to Argentina in general and with this program in particular!”
“It is an honor and a privilege to be partners with the Government in this comprehensive effort that aims to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty,” he emphasized.
The meeting was attended by representatives of social, religious, business and trade union organizations, among whom the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; and the president of COPAL, Daniel Funes De Rioja.
The head of the Barometer of the Social Debt of the Childhood of the UCA, Ianina Tuñón; also presented their points of view; the Ministers of Social Development of Tucumán, Gabriel Yedlin, and of Misiones, Belinda Dammer; the Secretary General of ATE Nacional, Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy; the leader of the UTEP Gildo Onorato, and the nutritionist Doctor Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Medicine of the UBA, Myriam Gorban.
During the activity, the goals for 2021 were presented and the impact of the more than 121,600 million pesos that the national government allocated to policies promoted by the Plan was analyzed.
So far, the Ministry of Social Development has issued 1,567,751 Food Card units, destined for 1,945,047 boys and girls who are under the Universal Child Allowance (AUH), 45,710 pregnant women and 49,520 people with disabilities.
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