THOSE THAT LIVE TO HELP

More and more, people become aware from which solidarity does not have to happen only before catastrophes or at time navideña. Authentic Papa Noel of this world has been working for years in that sense. She is the people of the third sector, that grows in this millenium end

It was not necessary that the nature untied to resemblance catastrophe so that the other people's misfortune nailed its nails in the most elastic muscle of the Argentineans. The globalizado world already shakes to us to newspaper with wars, hurricanes, endemic plagues and hambrunas that arrives via satellite. But here not more, around the corner, the reality gets worse: it is enough with throwing a glance to the newspaper and leaving a little the district to notice that the poverty whistles to us from an empty stomach or smiles with insolencia in a mouth without teeth.

But, this year, to the whole country pellejo became loose to him when the implacable eye of the camera showed the river turned the ocean and to whole families sinking tenebrous waters of the luck. And it was necessary to see the face of flooding so that that compasivo spirit undressed who arises timid when the bad gust of wind spreads, but that flows in torrents if there is a national emergency.

The mediatización of that disaster shook until the most powerful pockets and, in those days, the humanitarian aid acquired the shades of a miracle. A long time ago we did not attend so large manifestation of collective sensitivity with the convoking fellow like excluding. He was stirring to see how, its name, the sand granite transformed into mountains of foods, mattresses, clothes, hopes and promises distributed in cardboard boxes.

Somebody wrote that the generosity is not an act of the moral conscience, but product of the purest emotion. An attitude that only wakes up if the suffering of other ties the throat to us. Perhaps then has be more beneficial feeling than reason because, if those sharp images generated the explosion shared in common that overflowed more until the oiled structures of the local charity, means that the altruism is able to overcome with efficiency any calamity.

Although in Argentina still enough lack so that that solidarity in the catastrophe is transformed into a permanent attitude, the epic demonstrated at least that 36 million ready inhabitants exist to do something by their resemblances. Added to this, the impulse which they in the last took years many nongovernmental organizations led to promote the other people's cause has put in the open that the phenomenon is not a false approach to new forms of coexistence, but much more that that: it is a tibia but encouraging revolution against the increasing individualismo of the societies of century aim.

But not yet there are philosophical theories nor definitions that they explain this current. Nor there are formulas to put in practice, because all the human beings are not enabled to give in the same proportion. Some sacrifice until the family to offer a food plate, most romantic they bet to found solidarity there schools and others decide to take the voice of weakest where nobody wants oírlos.

These histories count how the aid is constructed and, mainly, prove that the only vital tool in this race towards a righter world is the love.

I wanted that if there is an economic globalización, we added a shared in common globalización to him, that appears a new species, homo solidarius, and for that it is not necessary silver, only human quality and vocation ", says Juan Carr, one of the five founders of already the famous Shared in common Network.

And perhaps it is not impossible. A year ago the Asoka foundation, institution with seat in Washington that looks for social innovators, granted a scholarship to him to organize the same network in 33 countries. That is to say, a as great network as the planet.

But Juan does not fear to him to the challenges. On the contrary, he is an enthusiastic one without remedy that, to the 9 years, found its place in the world when scout entered a grouping. There he learned that he was not sense if had not done something by anybody.

"When I entered in the secondary school I began to work much with the natives of Formosa and the linyeras, attending them, calming its necessities. Also it visited the leprosy patients, but that still costs to me ", explains, seated in the garden of its house, while it takes it kills and it remembers the experiences that him deparó the street. Specially to Salim Murat, a linyera that knew one night winter ten years ago.

"Era an incredible type, that counted incredible histories, and in that case one it does not have more remedy than to believe. Sometimes to him they donated three pairs to him of slippers and took two to Caritas because it said that they exceeded to him. A day told that it had had an accident of quite serious car and was about to to receive a judgment. I did not saw more it until a lawyer of Banfield called to me to let now that Salim had received the judgment and that with that money a department of an atmosphere had bought him. But it seems that one did not adapt. Good, I said, and I asked to him a friend who accompanied to me because I thought any thing. I arrive, and several days ago it was Salim in the door of the study hoping to me. The lawyer had to sell the department and to me he was called on to me to keep the money. I signed papers and I returned to house with the silver and Salim in the car, that asked to me: Juan, will reach to me to travel to Santiago of the Matting? But soon after he disappeared without taking nor a cent almost. If somebody sees Salim Murat, please díganle that its money is waiting for it."

When Juan finished the veterinary medicine race, the social activity married and left by a time. "But it arrived a little while in which it did not want to see reporters nor to read newspapers because it could not give answers. The one that had a social past is strange much. For that reason, with a group of friends, in a canchita of soccer of Vicente Lopez we decided to arm a network, because with few hours that one invests per week it obtains efficiency in saving lives. The slogan was that with that time we had to restore a scheme of solidarity in the country, to reeslabonar the chain so that solidarity so many times affected by the lack of credibility, returned to appear." With their four partners - Maria (its wife), the owner of the field, a pensioner of 78 years and an architect -, 3 thousand pesos joined, bought the computer, a line of telephone and, thus, the computer science system thought to coordinate and to order the necessities started up a mechanism that today, to three years of its creation, surpassed the initial expectations.

Since then, they enter 60,000 orders of aid derived to 230 institutions friends in all the country. More than 25 people the 24 hours are alternated to be pending of the telephone. Juan takes care of the urgencies and organizes the campaigns in mass media, his main allies in the search of solutions.

"Per day we received 90 calls, and is incredible: half is necessities and other half is people whom it loves to help. We only do of nexus, we did not touch neither to a pair of slippers nor medicines nor anything, do not have seat nor papers, are the famous potentiality. In a day he has more than three urgencies. For example: a communitarian dining room remained without food, a very small one entered national emergency of transplant, lack givers of blood for a patient and grandfathers are in a faint in the seat. Well. At the moment also we are looking for an adolescent who went of his house, I have a teacher in an emergency villa that cannot finish its race because it does not have guita, in addition is an orchestra of musicians to whom they removed to them to 150 pesos from monthly scholarship because the oil one was sold and they remained, which is said, in band… Ah, and in the middle of all that always there is some unusual call: a old one called to request that please they removed two doves to him that made nest in the ceiling of their house… That yes, now I sleep one hour of siesta, because I understood that I am not omnipotente ", counts without taking nor I suck of air between that shrapnel of words.

"the Network does not ensure the success. But, that yes, we did not leave anybody."

It collects it by the flooded ones moved it until the marrow and it put prow to him to its dreams. In April it glides to take to the universities of the country an ambitious proposal: to found the chair of solidarity. It has designed until the cronogram of the matters and the professors.

"To do something by other it produces an immense joy to me and it puts very anxious to see the capacity to me to help that it has people and not to know well like operating that. I leave in means requesting a wheelchair and appear five. I request clothes for a school and appears a textile factory. That is very strong. I know that we are not going to change the world, but we are going to die in the attempt if the effort serves to save a life."

Mónica Carranza knows that Juan Carr imagines giving it classes of solidarity in the faculty. Mónica smokes Impartial ones after another one, and its laughter explodes in smoke "Ay God…! What is that to teach to give? It is a feeling. The love does not have another meaning ", it says, and the house is to go and to come, because although it is the hour of the siesta, the preparations in the dining room already began the Carasucias.

For 8 years it has been feeding more than 600 people per day without another motor structure nor that the hunger, the only cause that cannot hope. For that reason, one embarked without measuring the consequences of the adventure.

"My husband at night worked in the factory Volcano and my son went to the secondary one to that same hour, so I was single in house. It seated to me in the path and the pibitos that came to the district to request achuras said to me: Che, not tenés sándiche? - he remembers -. My husband was joining silver to take to me of vacations. The question is that the pibitos came, and when I occurred account was more than five. I decided to make a great supper, I put my better table cloth, my better napkins, and was happy preparing Milanese to the napolitana, salads, dessert… It was a celebration. They could not believe it. Until I was spent the silver of the vacations, I did not make the account well: all the nights in house were 25 people having supper. When my family found out, it was a scandal. My son said me that she was crazy, but that day knew that I also was a girl of the street that hurgaba in the sweepings to eat, that slept in a wood box and that they violated to me, that dreamed about going to the school and having a family… "

There were no more reproaches, not even when they discovered that they would not go of vacations to San Clemente and who Mónica would not change of idea: that same night began to make paper flowers to join money and to buy more foods. "it was not going to me to resign and at the same time it suffered thinking that perhaps it was not going to be able to give them to eat on the following day. It sold or it requested in the neighboring districts, but it did not reach. In that desperation, my husband went of house and I, wanting it much, let it go equal. I said myself: it does not matter, I will also suffer by this. We had been 16 years of married without problems, but to a person he is wanted with his defects and virtues to it, and I at the moment must have many defects; now it is used to be pretty, the aesthetic thing, and that is a stupidity. If I dedicate myself to take care of the body I must leave my people, and that would never do it."

The husband returned to the three months arranged to contribute his pay to maintain to the dining room the Carasucias, that worked in the seat of the district because no longer 300 people in living fitted. Then it lacked little for the winter and, as it needed a shed, Mónica decided to mortgage the house.

"What querés that says piba to you, one does not know what is able to do. Luckily, this one always throws a hand - a estampita with the image of Jesus removes to me from the bodice, bitten by its Jazmín dog -. a deputy donated 3000 pesos to me. The same day that returned with the silver they came two viejitos on the verge of killing itself because it overcame the mortgage to them and did not have nor to eat. They had 2500 pesos, and I could pay them. We went running to escribanía. That woman does not know the good that did. Many senators have donated money, but they have requested me that does not say it ", it explains, and it takes advantage of to tell how it went that it knew president Menem.

"I saw for the first time in nor I decide to me where, but it speaks to him '… Yes, Mónica, how no, I am going them to help.! It never sent nor a package to me of grass. They named woman me of the year after I had an operation. He had an enormous headache, it was and took advantage of to remove another photo with me. I said to him: You one remembers my '? Watch, you said to him, those by which I requested to him are those that voted it and no longer it is necessary that helps, because some died, others them are imprisoned and the others subsist as they can. That it has luck, gentleman ", it counts.

Those poor men fall in love to him with the chicken farmers and they embrace it. Its presence in the dining room is a celebration. The Roemmers laboratory pays the rent of the premises and with the food it is necessary to do malabares. Sometimes donations arrive, others is necessary to resort to the paper flowers that Mónica continues making by the nights. But it never reaches. In the path, a human row leans in the light truck that donated Susana Giménez. "Poor Susana, I want it, but she does not know what is the love. When we ate in the street invited me to its program, but she did not want to give my telephone to the air. Later receipt the prize and calls to offer a gift: good, I said to him, a great light truck to transfer the beds, the mattresses, the furniture that offers to me. But one well great, for changes. Yes, it is going to be like vos querés. When I arrive I am with a very small Fiorino, used. To both days his accountant calls to say to me that he had to sign other papers. He was so that they could deduce of the taxes… "

The timbre sounds to each short while: now, a linyera demands tea and sugar. The house is a handkerchief since Mónica decided to adopt minors of the street and since his son formed the bailantero group I want to You, with which tries late without mercy each. Then it rented the departamentito of ahead, where it lives with his husband. With the money that she donated to him a widow months ago bought five houses, refaccionó and she #***aed-refl mng five unmarried mothers.

"I do not know, I do not become so many questions. The things it is necessary to do them, not to speak them as much. It wanted to give a new life them. I am happy asi '."

The day that monsignor Rey rejected that gift of the Department of the Interior exactly knew how many houses, how many schools and how many hospitals could be raised with 300,000 dollars monthly. But also it knew that to help it is sometimes a difficult way.

It reviews the numbers with nostalgia. "I held with pain, for my adentros said to me: what good would come all this! But it was a money that did not come from social programs, thus came not more, because the Department of the Interior does not have social programs, and we cannot foment the corruption, was not transparent. In addition the intention was to request to me that it lowers the tone of my declarations. And neither I accepted the money nor I want to shut up the mouth - he affirms with the security of that creates to have done the correct thing -. I suffer when some man in this writing-desk feels and cries because he has been months without finding a job. Pero Caritas has given the possibility me of living more intensely and of holding the woods that give me by all sides, because I always receive critics."

It says that from before taking the mamadera it knew that it would be cures. Of very small it learned to want to poor thanks to its mother who, in spite of enviudar very young with 10 children to hills, lived collaborating with the other people's cause. For that reason its arrival to the Church was a natural fact, as natural as when it was reelected to occupy by second consecutive period the presidency of Caritas, an ecclesiastical organization of solidarity with seats in each parish of the country. In 1999 its function finishes and, it assures, "there is no re-re-election here, we fulfilled the statutes, did not reform them here".

The Church is the only institution in the world that has been more than two millenia exerting and preaching solidarity systematically. They will be able to attribute to it them other debts, but the gear of its system guarantees fairness at the time of distributing. In the last five years, the growth of the poverty in Argentina forced Caritas to be multiplied in 2400 parishes distributed by the country. But the generosity is a very ciclotímica lady.

"the donations do not arrive every day, and money, the truth, almost never. We have one collects national who reunites 2.5 million weights, our fixed entrance that never reaches to solve the problems. In order to request something in special it is necessary to campaign, a little publicity. If no, nothing arrives. He is incredible, in this country where the 90 percent of the population says to catholic and Christian, only the 6 percent goes to mass. That 6 percent is the one that contributes."

She is a professional when to throw the sleeve it is tried, exercise that usually deparar almost encouraging dividends to him. Thus it obtained a program of the Secretariat of Development to help to 1500 old ones of the zone with a monthly stock market of food. The value of the merchandise has descended from 60 to 20 pesos. Equal monsignor is contented, because the same dependency started up a plan to refaccionar 1000 houses and to construct other 300 for the flooded ones of the coast. "I request all the day, alive requesting merchandise, remedies for patients, clothes, raise to the telephone or control letters to request work. I have papered whole walls in the companies of this way, no is saved. Sometimes he is very hard to row against the insensibilidad, some are very kind, to at least console me then although later they do not give anything me. Once, the government of the province of Buenos Aires promised to construct houses to me for the poor men and that same day left like the news published in newspapers! I did not want that she spread, because it was as soon as one first word. Good, I have protested until the satiety and people still ask to me: And the houses, father " In the diocese of Bell nobody duer to me beyond the padrenuesto: the door resounds to any hour if somebody needs medicines or arrives late at the food plate. They know that monsignor never says no. "they accuse to Me to me to have politicized, and that is ridiculous. It happens that to many it bothers to hear speak to them as much of the poor men. In the theater Columbus, in occasion of the Konex prizes, I took advantage of to remember the public to him who are million human beings living below the limit of the poverty. Good, until the catholics they accused to me of inopportune. What shame! But he does not matter what they say, my obligation is to say the truth, otherwise the poor men are going to think that God has forgotten them, that it has made silence in winch of the injustices ".