Surely worst than the long Colombian conflict, it is the reality of its street children in the biggest cities. The Gamín (street boy in Colombian idioms), became almost a traditional character. Even if some people and groups complain of the lack of more definitive projects to end the problem of unprotected children in the Colombian streets, it is possible to find a good list of institutions, private and officials, doing something. The problem stands in the same conflict. Only the growing number of displaced farm families, fleeing from war-zones and taking refuse in the cities, is a definitive source of children on the streets with all its consequences. (more…)
Chile should be a country of the so called First World for 2020. At least it is the will of the government of president Michele Bachelet. It was in 2008 when the Minister of Public Works launched a challenging project in infrastructures to develop the country with the year 2020 in mind: the country should be at that time a developped nation. 
Karl Lippert, the president of Bavaria, the Colombian Beer Company, said that fighting poverty is a duty for all companies and development organizations in the country. Even if Colombia has improved social conditions in the last decades, 48% of the population still under poverty, said Lippert in Portafolio.com.co. “That is not a benefit for anybody“, he writes.
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