On July 16th 2015, Argentina created a temporary retirement policy for informal workers, commonly known as “retirement income for housewives”.

En période de récession, lorsque l'économie ne crée pas suffisamment d'emplois pour soutenir l'ensemble de la population, l'économie sociale joue souvent un rôle important en garantissant que les travailleurs peuvent toujours trouver des emplois raisonnables.

I have been working in Health and Social Care for many years and recently took a career break to travel and volunteer.

A recent study by The Omprakash Foundation on critical service-learning, explored the experiences of three students engaged in international volunteer programs and found that feelings of disappointment, alienation, frustration, and confusion are to be expected and even celebrated when they emerge through students’ engagements with difference.

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.

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.

Argentinian Independence is celebrated on July 9th every year, or 9 de Julio as it is called through Argentina. 

In Argentina the interaction between political activism and religiousness has an interesting exchange. Inside the villas, many people gather to discuss what’s happening in their community and they do it in a specific place that could be surprising from someone outside the country: churches. 

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