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The UTEP denounced that the Government is “dismantling” an early childhood program aimed at vulnerable sectors - Infobae
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La UTEP denunció que el Gobierno está “desguazando” un programa de primera infancia destinado a sectores vulnerables
Aseguran que el Ministerio de Capital Humano desvinculó a 82 de los 203 contratados en el Programa Nacional Primeros Años, destinados a niños de 0 a 4 años
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April 14, 2024
They claim that the Ministry of Human Capital dismissed 82 of the 203 hired in the National Early Years Program, intended for children from 0 to 4 years old.
By Andres Klipphan
They denounce cuts in early childhood programs
The Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP) denounced that Javier Milei 's government “defunds” and “dismantles” hundreds of child care spaces that are in a “critical situation throughout the country.” They claim that they are left without food, that they suffer layoffs of employees, that the salaries of their workers lose against inflation and that the Ministry of Human Capital, through the National Secretariat of Children, Adolescents and Family (SENAF), “does not provide any type of response.” One piece of information reflects this situation: of a plant of 203 hired - all were employed under that modality - 82 were discontinued.
The last 30 dismissals arrived via email on Friday the 12th starting at 5:10 p.m. But with a peculiarity: they were retroactively disaffected from March 30. "It's awful. The perversity advances because in addition to the dismissal, they made them work 12 days in April for free . The situation of sadness, anguish and abuse is terrible. Nobody deserves to be fired, especially if you have always worked. If you have always been committed,” she tells Infobae, with tears in her eyes, Mariana “Negrita” Gerardi , Regional Coordinator of the province of Buenos Aires and CABA of the National First Years Program. She is a social psychologist, with 14 years of experience, and who along with her partner were disaffected from the program, which depends on the Secretariat of Children, Adolescents and Family, headed by Pablo de la Torre , in the first round of layoffs.
The MTE began a campaign to denounce the emptying of the early childhood program
Children's centers are essential places, mostly located in popular neighborhoods, that provide a care, educational and comprehensive space for many boys and girls while their families work in the different branches of the popular economy. “Without these spaces, many children would be accompanying their fathers and mothers to work in a context that is detrimental to their development,” Natalia Zarza , president of the Federation of Socio-Community Workers organized at UTEP and a reference for that, explained to this medium. space in the MTE.
“ Childhoods are in emergency , care spaces cannot wait any longer,” said Zarza and recalled that “a few days ago we went to the Ministry of Human Capital where Secretary Pablo de la Torre assisted us, he assured us that Ana Belén Marmora , the undersecretary of Family Policies, was going to attend to us, that a dialogue table was going to be implemented, but that never happened , we had no response, we are workers who are in the neighborhoods putting our bodies, caring, accompanying, hugging and educating the childhoods.” And he added: “They are not just any childhood, they are childhoods of the popular economy, they are daughters and sons of workers in the popular economy sector, which is the most vulnerable sector, the most hit, the most forgotten, by this Government and the truth, “We are in a state of desperation.”
Mariana Gerardi was Regional Coordinator of the Province of Buenos Aires and CABA of the National First Years Program. She is a social psychologist and had been there for 14 years.
Given the lack of response from the government and the lack of information about new agreements or the continuity of existing agreements with the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and Family, the MTE and other UTEP organizations held a protest on Friday in front of that agency located in Juan Domingo Perón 524.
On the website of the Ministry of Human Capital, it is detailed that the “National Early Years Program” aims to “assist, train facilitators in comprehensive child development, interculturality, gender, parenting, etc. Training and training for organizations and institutions, neighbors and/or public officials in the community” to “strengthen the parenting capacities of families with children from 0 to 4 years old and pregnant people in situations of social vulnerability , through the training of people, provincial and local institutions and community networks.” This bra is intended for “people responsible for the upbringing of girls and boys from 0 to 4 years old, pregnant women and pregnant people in situations of social vulnerability.”
Zarza and Mariana Gerardi agreed that since the arrival of La Libertad Avanza to the Casa Rosada there has been “a dismantling of these centers that are already unsustainable with the abrupt cut off of food delivery, massive layoffs, freezing of salaries and scrapping essential programs.”
Through a harsh statement, from the MTE, closely linked to the political leader and former presidential candidate of Unión por la Patria, Juan Grabois , it was highlighted that: “The continuity of these spaces that work together with children and their families depends on the decision and political will not to dismantle the policies through which these centers maintain their operation.”
“I feel like I'm broken,” Gerardi says with a broken voice, “I'm not going to be able to pay the rent next month. That generates a lot of anguish because it is as if one had life, a little organized and suddenly that is cut off, it breaks.”
Some 10,000 children are served through infancy and childhood programs
“The State is destroying the spaces that contain families throughout the country because it is a federal program,” says the social psychologist. Some data serve to give context to Gerardi's words.
According to official figures released by the MTE, “approximately 10,000 boys and girls attend these spaces and 3,500 are care workers who work in them through various programs aimed at children.”
There are also more than 100 care spaces and 150 game libraries, which are spaces with fewer hours than children's centers that provide recreation workshops and school support.
On Friday, the dismissed and members of programs that depend on Human Capital protested to demand a dialogue channel with the Government
Zarza also emphasizes that without these spaces, many children will have to accompany their parents while they work: “This means that children would travel in cardboard trucks as it was in the past , they would wander through textile workshops, they would be in agricultural farms, etc. , or else on the street or alone in homes. This right that was won for these children is the one that today is in a critical situation.”
