News of soup kitchens

Thousands attend Christmas charity dinner in Buenos Aires

25-12-2024 14:15 Over 3,000 homeless individuals attended a festive charity dinner in Buenos Aires amidst growing poverty affecting over half of Argentina's population, highlighting the urgent need for support as many struggle with homelessness and hunger.

POVERTY IN ARGENTINA

Soup kitchens struggle with growing queues as poverty rises

19-10-2024 06:18 Amid a deep economic crisis, food purchases have slumped 18.6% this year in Argentina. Meanwhile, demand at community soup kitchens is soaring, especially in some of the most impoverished and remote areas of the country.

by Agustina Bordigoni

POVERTY

Quilmes university makes 'super soup' to highlight need for food aid

04-07-2024 17:43 President Javier Milei's government is again being criticised for withholding food from soup kitchens.

POVERTY

Court orders Milei government to distribute held-up food aid

27-05-2024 15:14 Court orders Argentina's government to release five tons of food meant for the poor that is being held in storage.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Milei government moves against social organisations and picket groups

20-05-2024 16:02 President Milei’s government is moving against Argentina’s influential social organisations and picket groups as social conflict rises in the nation.

POLITICS

Police raid soup kitchens as government claims 47% ‘do not exist’

16-05-2024 17:21 According to the Human Capital Ministry, almost half of registered soup kitchens and emergency canteens surveyed presented irregularities such as ghost addresses. No details of full list, but government claims address of one was listed as residence in a gated community.

POLITICS & POVERTY

Police raid dozens of soup kitchens

14-05-2024 22:11 Authorities say dozens of raids had been carried out against soup kitchens and groups that manage them as part of a probe into alleged extortion of the poor.

POLITICS

Police clash with social organisations during anti-austerity protests

19-03-2024 17:08 Clashes as social organisations and picket groups demonstrate against growing hunger and lack of aid to food banks and soup kitchens. Protesters and journalists wounded.

LIVING WITH POVERTY

‘Comedores’ in crisis: Emergency food aid at risk from cuts

15-02-2024 16:30 Milei government’s move to suspend aid to soup kitchens and introduce a new system to ‘cut out the middleman’ damages emergency food assistance efforts.

by Agustina Bordigoni

POVERTY

More hunger, less money: Soup kitchens count rations

15-02-2024 00:33 At community meal centres across Argentina, a dual crisis is biting: the influx of ever more hungry mouths to feed during an economic crisis, and a decision by President Javier Milei's new government to freeze their aid.

PROTESTERS CHALLENGE PETTOVELLO

Huge 'hunger line' in Buenos Aires challenges Milei's minister

06-02-2024 00:03 Sandra Pettovello’s claim she would attend to the hungry “one by one” backfires as hundreds of demonstrators form long queues outside her Human Capital Ministry, demanding greater state assistance in the face of a food emergency.