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Poor families manage livelihoods
posted on: Feb 5 2012 14:17 by RDugey. Viewed 13 times.
Despite having a large family and informal employment which limits economically, Mr Alfredo de la Rosa leads to home every day the "moro" their children.
To 30 pesos, don Alfredo acquires six "dishes of the day" and most of the time buy double portions to have guaranteed dinner.
Like him, resident in the neighborhood of Simón Bolívar, inhabitants of districts as Gualey, Villa Juana, Guachupita and others in the capital and Santiago, which also operate the mobile kitchens, carry their pots, buckets, pots and cauldrons as containers to load portions of food for his family between six and 15.
"Here is a lady that comes every day to buy food from their 12 children." She takes up to two cubeticas full of food, because it is used for lunch and dinner. "This is a very good meal and helps us to save the chelitos and gas," said Andrea Carrasco.
They are part of the 150,000 people who u000adaily visit the facilities of the economic state dining rooms, both at its headquarters and premises operating in the different provinces of the country, or the mobile kitchens, where the public acquires a ration for five pesos.
Interviewees stated that the economic dining food, like because in addition to cheap and varied, it is made in a hygienic environment.
"This is the best that has commanded us Dios here to the Simon Bolivar." "I hope that this program is maintained, because he has helped us that we lack not food that is so expensive," said Luis Cabeza, who every day buying eight or nine rations for his family.
And that the economic dining rooms offer a lunch prepared with quality standards, installed kitchens fully stainless steel with cutting edge technology, where the "chef" preparing each week a varied and nutritious menu.
Menu
families have Moorish available u000aof guandules, of red or black beans, also Western of pork, chicken or herring, white and yellow rice.
These dishes are accompanied by meat of chicken, beef and single pig, or plant linked, as well as pasta and various salads.
The director of the institution, Nicholas Calderon, reported that upon arrival at the institution he had the vision of transforming the economic soup kitchens to provide service to a greater number of families. "For example, we have created the program of mobile food (PAM), which has as a fundamental axis 28 mobile kitchens, which the State invested RD$ 114 million for purchase", he added.
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