plays back a few stories from the everyday paloma'schen:
(names, as always, all changed)
Last Thursday is an 8-year-old Boy mener group, which otherwise almost always comes to La Paloma did not appear. When I asked his big sister, put out because her brother would, she told me that he would be with his mother in a "Piquete. Since I do not know the word, I asked my colleague, who told me the following:
In the barrios, where the children live, there are many political and social organizations that are too small, too radical and too unprofessional to be registered as an official party / association / club / society.
Since their political protest but they still want some way to give expression, they regularly call for Piquet. In this Piquete then gather the people of the organization and from a road block for example, put cars on fire or occupy public buildings. In order to give greater expression to the protest, call for support in the Barrio, but with the announcement, when a family comes to picket and support the insurgency, they get money for it - and the more people they bring are, the more money. Well, that too is earning for the mostly poor families from the barrios a means money. Only stupid, that small children have since been back and therefore with the day once again miss the school. Furthermore, I was told that the organizations for young people aged 14/15 years another payment for participation in the offer Piquete: Who is neat and makes getting behind riot 50 pesos and a bag of cocaine. So much for "political freedom" in Argentina - one has to buy his followers with money and drugs ... Another example of life in the barrios:
Last Friday I stopped an hour from the children to prepare for an activity. I can develop pictures of the children and wanted to bebasteln with them beautiful to be hanging in the lounge. Since I wanted to make it a bit more, I wrote the names of the children with lemon juice in the photos. Do you know this method of "magic letters"? If you something with lemon juice to the paper writes and then holds it over a candle, the writing magically appears on the paper. In any case, I joined one of the photos, a candle and a lemon in a room to prepare for the tinkering alone. In addition, the children should still not see what we will do later. This was with the 11-year-old Fernando. He was curious about what I would do well there in the room and pounded frantically on the door. After he had annoyed me long enough, I opened the door to tell him that he should now disappear please. But no sooner had the door open, enter stüzte Fernando. When he saw what I had spread, he swept all with one wipe off the table. I thought I do not look right! keep In a moment in itself, to remain calm and not to abuse the child simply loud, really hard, I tell you ... In any case, I became angry and got kicked out of Fernando, but with the announcement that we will talk about later. A short time later, after I turn everything aufgeäumt and the salon had opened, he came back. He took Palstikchips from a game board and started with no reason for me to throw these chips ... Although I recognize that the boy comes from a difficult family, consumed drugs and just like to provoke and offend in order to give vent to his frustration, but we worry me Moment too much. I called my colleague for help, which had witnessed the events on that day and Fernando did a proper dressing down. Must be sometimes ... I later learned, however, some of my colleague, what makes me the whole situation easier to understand:
are in the barrios in addition to political organizations, most recently, religious communities. These communities are indeed similar to the Catholic Church, but have a much more spiritual ideology. They regularly invite to church services and Kulto sessions, which will then prayed in a somewhat ominous way ... Just with candles, incense, Wodoo and all that stuff. I want these religious Associations now dub not directly as cults, but a little bit fanatistisch, bizarre is the thing already. In the states which prevail in the Barrio (hopelessness, poverty, violence, drugs, boredom ...) it is no wonder that people can be swept along by such religious meetings. There, they find solace, at least some cohesion and employment ... Many mothers whose children come to La Paloma, take part in such prayer sessions, including the mother of Fernando. Fernando, however, noted that this is kind of funny, and that his mother changed a bit. Well, and when he saw me that day, as I am with a candle and the photos in a single lock chamber, he thought at first, because I would hold inside any hocus-pocus and curse the children. After I and my colleague had done this misunderstanding of the world, he was willing to apologize to me. Of course all this is no excuse for how disrespectful he has behaved with respect to, but it makes things a little easier to understand ...
La Paloma is situated at the outer edge of the Barrios in San Justo. A major problem there are the many free-roaming dogs that have no owner, is gonna wind up on the street and often have rabies. Recently, a 6-year-old boy was on his way to La Paloma by a dog in the shoulder bitten. Since the children are not usually vaccinated against Taetanus, we have called an ambulance for safety's sake, so that the wound is cleaned professionally. When we (who was said dog namely not abandoned) the owners of dogs that live in the Barrio asked to assume the cost of an ambulance, they said only that it had no money and why the children have also leave it alone, in the middle walking around on the street would be ... Thus, the subject was then done for the people. Even my boss has not decided whether she wants a lawyer to proceed against the people or not. Overall, she is concerned less with the medical costs, than whether the two dogs of the people be on a leash, because ever other day the postman was attacked.
Then something else happened very ugly last week ... Let me preface the following statement:
The 9-year-old Rodrigo is' n clever little fellow is developing normally and generally makes no great difficulty. It is morning from 8 to 12 in the school and then spent the afternoon in La Paloma. Since the beginning of this school year, he must also help his brothers at work, 
to earn money for the family. So he pulls up 17 clock when La Paloma to an end, is still up to 21 clock with the cart going and collect paper, cardboard and other recyclable items. That is the way the only work of many poor people: they draw in the evening with their "Carro" through the streets and look in the waste, which was provided by people on the street, for useful things, which they then sell to specially created collection points. When Rodrigo and his brothers at night is not enough to bring money home, they get trouble from her father. This was the case last week. We all saw Rodrigo had on the day also a note from his teacher in the school session, that he lately had often had no homework. (Of course, when the boy supposed to do homework even when he is 14 hours a day on the road and works!) When the alcohol-dependent father got wind of it, he beat Rodrigo as green and blue, the next day that he was not allowed to participate in our theater planned for us because he had wounds on the face and back and could no longer move properly. The rest of the week he went to school or even to La Paloma. Took me the story of the day very much, I had an incredible anger at the father! How can you do this to his child?? How can you abuse your child like that, make him such a special day break? How to prepare the child and the family, such a trauma? But there are also beautiful, problem-free days in La Paloma, like today for example: Today we have nachgefeiert Rodrigo 10.Geburtstag. He got a new pair Adidas sneakers and a training jacket from TSV Russee (both things that the friends of my parents had donated). When he unpacked the things during the Merienda large Comedor, he cried, "Uhhhhh, re piola! (So \u200b\u200bas much as: "how cool") and luckily things fit like a glove also.
was also a girl of our young people today with their 3-month-old baby on a visit to La Paloma ... During the 17-year-old mother finally again able to spend time with their friends, I took care of the child. At some point, it is then fell asleep on my arm and has hingeträumt on. Oh man, babies have been something ... so sweet and peaceful! But do not worry: I can still feel my mother for later ;-)
This was again a brief insight into what I experience in La Paloma and how can I learn from them.
had Furthermore, I found my third interim report online (see right column) in which I write more about such things.
I hope you are well. Hasta luego muchachos !
