Where:
Where:Pichanal
Target audience:
Target audience:Children belonging to the Ava Guarani families.
Who is following the project?
Who is following the project?Brother Guillermo Schattenhofer
In Argentina, among the Ava Guarani
The Ava Guarani are one of the oldest indigenous peoples in Latin America, spread in communities between Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. For centuries, Ava Guarani families have sustained themselves through hunting and particularly through farming and gathering nature’s produce. Today these communities are squeezed to the margins of society by colonization aimed at occupying their lands for economic speculation. This has led the Ava Guaraní into a condition of severe social marginality and, as a result, to face widespread poverty.
The friars in northern Argentina
For more than 30 years, the Friars Minor of the Province of St. Francis Solano have been engaged in various locations in northern Argentina to protect young people, indigenous communities and the most vulnerable. The friars of the Pichanal Fraternity, in particular, assist the Ava Guaraní with various initiatives to foster the education of the youngest, aggregation, and to combat hunger.
The friars’ commitment to the little Ava Guarani children
More than 10 years ago, the friars of Pichanal started a canteen designed to combat malnutrition among children, a problem particularly prevalent among the Ava Guaraní. Usually children do in fact receive one meal a day at school, but during the vacation months not all families have enough to feed them. The canteen sees the friars working together with local people to provide about 800 meals a day. However, this service entails a considerable effort for the fraternity, which has approached the Fondazione OFM Fraternitas for help.
2024 Campaign
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