With posters such as ¨Hunger is also violence¨ and ¨We are not the caste´, members of social organizations that work in these institutions denounced the suspension of their financing and expressed their concern for the families that depend on them.

The initiative is called ¨Cocineras contra el hambre¨ (Cooks against hunger) and began at around 10:00 a.m. local time.

The participants in the demonstration are also asking to be received by Minister Sandra Pettovello.

These community kitchens, located in the poorest neighborhoods of Argentina, play a broad and irreplaceable social role, and distribute more than 10 million rations a day, according to a communique issued by the demonstrators.

For each soup kitchen that closes, entire families no longer receive a plate of food and a network of containment in the neighborhood is extinguished.

Pettovello does not seem to be aware of the current food crisis and the sensitivity it demands.

We demand the urgent delivery of food to the thousands of soup kitchens that respond to hunger in Argentina.

We call for the broadest unity of organizations and social actors to form tables and face the crisis, he concludes.

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