BUENOS AIRES — “Many families come to the soup kitchens,” says Alicia Casimiro. “Also unemployed people who weren’t coming before. There are elders, pregnant women and many children.”
Casimiro runs a community kitchen in Villa 31, a slum neighbourhood in the centre of Buenos Aires, right next to the most exclusive district of the Argentine capital. But despite the opulent old homes, mansions and lavish lifestyles that characterise nearby Recoleta, dwindling supplies at the soup kitchen just a couple of kilometres away have left it struggling to fill everyone’s plates. “The only thing we manage to cook is a stew, without enough vegetables,” says Casimiro.
