Fighting to Keep the Retirement Income for Housewives in Argentina
geschrieben von Melissa Castaño
On July 16th 2015, Argentina created a temporary retirement policy for informal workers, commonly known as “retirement income for housewives”.
In Voluntario Global's latest volunteers meeting we gathered around a table filled with snacks and mate to spend the afternoon and get to know each other, while discussing social and political topics and trying to figure out solutions to different problems that we now face within our society.
Charlotte, from the United Kingdom, volunteered in the Early Childhood Development Center in Buenos Aires.
The importance of the social economy in many community projects is often overlooked however, in this community radio project in La Boca is a prime example of how social objectives are achieved through community work and cooperation.
In this interview, Volunteer Ambassador Neil West tells us about his experience in Buenos Aires volunteering, for a second time, with Voluntario Global.
The producers of vegetables that feed the Argentine population, convened on Wednesday, July 24, an "Alimentazo".
Centro Cultural Kirchner: The CCK, the largest cultural centre in Latin America
James O'Hara
The Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) is a cultural centre located in the San Nicolas neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the largest cultural centre in Latin America and the fourth largest in the world.
Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2019 it lands on July 29th.
Curas Villeros: the Social Leaders inside the villas of Argentina
geschrieben von Melissa Castaño
Many of Voluntario Global’s projects are in the villas —deprived neighborhoods in the outskirts of Buenos Aires— and inside them the social and political activism is completely merged with religion.
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