According to the latest report from the Social Debt Observatory of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), based on the Income Distribution report from INDEC, poverty in Argentina reached 38.9% between July and September 2024. Meanwhile, 8.5% of the population is in extreme poverty.
If these data are extrapolated to the country's 47.1 million inhabitants, more than 18 million people live in poverty, and 4 million of them in extreme poverty.
Since 2015, the NGO Pata Pila has worked in more than 80 communities across the country, implementing concrete solutions so that girls, boys and families in extreme poverty can access health, nutrition and essential rights. Unlike sporadic interventions, the organization's multidisciplinary teams live and work in the territory, ensuring close and continuous support.
Diego Bustamante, founder of Pata Pila, highlights the importance of this comprehensive approach: "We have programs ranging from nutrition to vocational training to empower the adults responsible for the children, mainly mothers. We want them to have the tools they need to face poverty with sustainable solutions."
For Bustamante, the key is to offer long-term solutions: "It is essential to support communities with sustainable tools that let them improve their living conditions. This requires constant technical follow-up, not just isolated training. We need to integrate these communities into the economy in a sustainable way so they truly see an impact on their well-being."
Pata Pila currently works on the ground in Salta, Mendoza, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires, fighting child malnutrition and supporting families in situations of extreme vulnerability. The organization reiterates its commitment and calls on society to join this cause.
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Child malnutrition is a type of malnutrition that currently affects children and families. And although our country has one of the lowest rates of child deaths from this problem in Latin America, many children still die from child malnutrition in Argentina.
Poverty in Argentina is currently present throughout its entire territory. However, there are certain specific areas where poverty, together with a lack of access to health care and education, has caused an increase in child malnutrition.
Child malnutrition in children is one of the social and health problems that most affects this age group in Argentina and has the most negative effects on their quality of life in the future.