How to Feel to Enter “There”: The Question After a Young Man’s Death on Cabildo Avenue
- -Last night, on Cabildo and Teodoro García, in Belgrano, a man died.
- -When someone who is homeless dies, the first thing I do is try to find out their name, if we knew them, although a death is a death...
- -Midway thru last year, a group of researchers recorded, in the first six months of the year, 63 deaths of people in a situation of homelessness throughout the...
-Last night, on Cabildo and Teodoro García, in Belgrano, a man died. He bled to death after cutting himself on something while entering a garbage container. What do you know about what happened?
-When someone who is homeless dies, the first thing I do is try to find out their name, if we knew them, although a death is a death and it doesn’t matter who died. The first thing I thought was how you must feel to enter a garbage container. I, when I throw out the trash, try not to touch anything, I prefer to step on the lever to open it. But there are people who have to get in there.I try to imagine what it must feel like. The smell, the uncertainty of not knowing what’s there.To think that someone has to go in there to survive,it makes me feel bad.
-Midway thru last year, a group of researchers recorded, in the first six months of the year, 63 deaths of people in a situation of homelessness throughout the country.
-We have been hearing about people dying of cold, being set on fire or murdered in a fight. But not this. This speaks to negligence,abandonment,and the fact that what needs to be done is not being done. The forms of cruelty and abandonment are renewed.We don’t even know his name.
-It is true, in the prosecutor’s office they tell us that they did not identify him.
-Many times identity is thought of from a legal point of view, from the ID. But the person in a situation of homelessness needs to be seen, to be named. When I think that no one knows his name, I link it to the fact that maybe there is no one waiting for him. It’s sad.
-The City Government says that this young man, about 30 years old, had entered the container to look for things to resell. How do people who are on the street make a living?
-There are several profiles. One relatively new one is the person who has formal or informal work and lives on the street. They don’t earn enough to pay rent.
-Hace pocos días ustedes lanzaron una campaña que se relaciona con lo que pasó porque dicen: “Tener calle te ayuda en un trabajo, pero vivir en la calle no te permite tener uno”. ¿Por qué es tan difícil para una persona que está en la calle conseguir un trabajo o aprovechar, por ejemplo, una oportunidad que le quiere dar alguien de un trabajo equis?
-Esa campaña fue una donación de la agencia de publicidad, Humo Rojo y la productora Casta Diva. La campaña tiene que ver con que una persona que está en situación de calle vive tanto en la supervivencia que se le complica proyectar, pensar en algo que no sea cómo higienizarse, cómo bañarse, qué comer, cómo moverse de lugar en lugar porque es corrida por la policía. por otra parte,hay otros obstáculos: para llegar a un trabajo,tenés que levantarte temprano,dormir bien para dar lo mejor de vos,ir con determinada condición de higiene,con determinada vestimenta,llegar a horario,tener un despertador,un celular,una tarjeta de transporte cargada y,si es un trabajo formal,tenés que tener un domicilio que declarar para el alta de ese trabajo. Una persona en situación de calle no tiene nada de eso. Lo que queremos visibilizar desde Multipolar es que las personas están en situación de calle no porque no quieren laburar, porque quieren pero en la mayoría de los casos no pueden.
-El censo de CABA que se difundió la semana pasada dice