CHILE Food Box チリ食料支援
チリ（サンティアゴ市内の貧困地域）
2020/5~2020/7
As a side effect of the lockdown caused by COVID-19 in 2020, people started rioting, confronting the government, and asking for food and help.
The government is providing food and cleaning supplies to the most vulnerable families. Also, people and organizations have started food donation campaigns all over the city to complement the help provided by the government, which is largely perceived as insufficient. Although the Alliance for Humanitarian Architecture focuses primarily on architectural support, its South American office is based in Santiago, and we could not ignore this situation and have decided to support it with our food donation campaign, named the "Life with Dignity" project.
Our initial aim was to support the families by supplying roughly two weeks of food (comparable to the ones provided by the government) in the La Bandera neighborhood.
PRODUCTS CONTAINED in the BOXES
(Each box is roughly 42USD)
COOKING OIL 900cc
RICE 2kg
PASTA 4 PACK 400g
TOMATO SAUCE 4 PACK 200g
FLOUR 2kg
SUGAR 1kg
TEA 1 BOX (100 BAGS)
MACKEREL 2 CANS (425g per CAN)
TOOTHPASTE 1 TUBE
TOILET PAPER 1 PACK (4 UNITS EACH)
SOAP 1 UNIT
SANITARY PADS 1 PACKAGE
CANDLES 1 PACKAGE (10 UNITS)
BLEACH 1liter
BEANS 2kg
SALT 1kg
MILK 1kg
Assembling the boxes
Over 200 boxes delivered to contain all the food were hand assembled by the AHA South America members and their families, as well as the neighboors and friends. Also the students from the University of Santiago have helped assemble the boxes.
“Bajos de Mena” Neighborhood
This is a popular, low income neighborhood in the commune of Puente Alto in the southeast part of Santiago.
This neighborhood started as a small settlement during the 1960’s but grew exponentially during the 1990’s with the building of many social, public housing buildings for poor people. This area is considered the biggest settlement in Chile, with a population of around 140,000 people, most of them living in public social housing units.
Here we have helped an organized group of people in this community who work in a small, informal market in Bajos de Mena. This organizartion consists of 141 families of small scale merchants, who sell used and cheap ítems on the street. With the decrease in economic activities related to the lockdown, many of them are not earning enough money to pay rent, buy groceries or bills.
“La Bandera” Neighborhood
This is a popular, low income neighborhood in the commune of San Ramón in the southern part of Santiago.
This neighborhood started as an informal settlement by people without access to housing solutions from the government. It has a strong identity and internal organization, derived from its roots as an informal settlement. The families in “La Bandera” are organizing and trying to get as much help as posible, to provide food and other goods to the community. Many people have lost their Jobs or have informal Jobs, that can’t be done because of the general state of lockdown in the city.
The first 25 boxes with food and supplies were delivered to the community in La Bandera neighborhood on Saturday June 13th. These 25 boxes where delivered to the poorest members of the community, people who recently lost their jobs,single mothers, etc.
