By Gabriela Caffaro. PILA MEDIA FOUNDATION
This foundation promotes the culture of work through the textile industry arose from the initiative of José María Sarasola who after 5 years living and studying in Australia returns to the country in 2004 and moved with Actually I saw on the streets. While he was aware of the economic data to make contact with people suffering the reality on the street begins to outline in his head a project that people who looked hopeless and resigned, could be restored through genuine work . He contacted in September with 20 friends telling them about your idea and invite them to join this initiative and, through a chain of mails have a 1 October meeting where 38 people came together from there begin to outline the bases of the project. They had already committed to about 60 people who were to help shape a venture that was to build solidarity in the first instance a textile workshop in making shirts of 1 as it was self-managed by a group of single mothers. These moms cartoons with his children and the idea was that they and the kids leave the street, had a decent job and the kids begin to have a normal life returning to the schooling they have missed while on a night with the family. Thus mothers ensured the influx of money into the home and the kids just went back to a childhood but began to have contact with the work culture.
In February 2005 bought the first two sewing machines and at the same time you start the training of members of the foundation and soon after the mothers who would work on 1 workshop belonging to the dining room of the Infant Jesus of Chacarita. In April the first shirt was manufactured Media stack. From there, month after month was improving both the quality of the shirts as the production system. The first shirts were purchased by friends to finance the project and then began marketing in parishes and universities.
Today, the foundation Media Stack has a training center itself, which provides comprehensive training in cutting, printing and garment making in the neighborhood of San Miguel (Calle Alem 2122) and has 5 micro textile mills located in Pacheco, Derqui, San Miguel, Chacarita Tigre and. Several have begun to successfully independent. We visited over 80 schools in Capital, Northern and Southern Zone and has been that 30 mothers who were unemployed before earning over $ 200,000 working.
The last great achievement was that the convening of the foundation to put a stand in the latest edition of the Buenos Aires Fashion Week which not only marketed the shirts but also it publicized the project, generating new contacts for opening new shops.
You can collaborate with them buying the shirts, donating money for the purchase of inputs and machinery or volunteering in their offices. For more information their website is www.mediapilapais.com.ar and telephone number 3531-7998.
Assistance Center toll free 135-SUICIDE
service center provides an anonymous, voluntary and free 135 toll-free number providing an emergency response to a specific social reality. This is the first institution that deals Argentina urgent problem which any person in crisis with ideas or fantasies suicide and runs from June 9, 1967.
volunteers in charge of the service are prepared with care, properly trained and constantly supervised, they are able to respond clearly, creatively and confidently in critical situations, do not judge the Consultant, nor part of preconceptions, does not give solutions, if brand alternatives roads or trying not to wake up unrealistic expectations for the Consultant, adapting to the staff of this historic moment. This task is carried out with absolute confidentiality, as neither party is identified, this ensures the confidentiality of the problems of the client. The CAS provides only call for 24 hs. 365 days a year and also provides information on medical and social services, Mental Health and various community resources.
Its basic objectives are:
• Provide a fast response, warm, human and confidential on an informal, non-clinical.
• Develop a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, cause and effect of self-destructive behavior.
• Provide suicide prevention programs to combat the effects of direct or indirect causes that promote or encourage suicide.
While until 1993 the CAS was attending to provide lectures in schools and universities is sporadic and on behalf of themselves, from year 1994 the world's reality teen makes the launch of a prevention program. It includes among other things talks and discussion workshops and are aimed at students, parents, teachers, professionals and all those involved in the adolescent stage.
The basic objectives of this initiative are focused in relation to:
• To defend life in all its expressions,
• Mark the need for interpersonal communication,
• Assess the experiences, joys and sorrows of each adolescent as a unique and unrepeatable ,
• promote attitudes of openness to allow paying attention to what happens to the other and also willing to seek help when some things go wrong,
• Build health prevention attitudes designed to help in situations that can lead to extreme decisions,
• While you can cite many causes of teen suicide (failure in the study, heartbreak, loneliness, addictions, lack of projects, abandonment, etc..) is essential background to understand that there is a loss of meaning of life,
• Directing attention to the signs and warnings, both explicit and subtle,
• Encourage attitudes that put involved in prevention and dialogue, interest, listening, understanding, etc.
The CAS welcomes any aid can be given, provided is in need of additional volunteers to answer the phone and financial support to continue service. This center operates in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Hospital, as I mentioned has toll-free 135, also with cell 4962-0303 and 4962-0660, the website is www.casbuenosaires.org.ar and contact email casbuenosaires @ yahoo.com.ar. Any of these media serve appliance that will come near your help!
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