2023-05-18 00:17:17
Volunteers from the different faculties of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) will distribute a plate of hot food to people who are in a street situation, an activity that they carry out for the third consecutive year, the house of higher studies reported today.
The “Plato Hot” Program will begin this Thursday, and will take place every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:00 p.m. with a meeting point in the bar of the Faculty of Medicine, located on Calle Azcuénaga and Marcelo T. de Alvear, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta.
In that same place, volunteers from the Nutrition program will make dishes that meet the nutritional values that each person must consume and, once the food is prepared, the dishes will be distributed in the areas surrounding the faculties.
Nicolás Gutiérrez is a Public Accountant student at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the UBA and has participated in volunteering since its inception, three years ago, and assured Télam that his participation in the program “fills him with pride” and that one of the great The repercussions it gives is “to be able to give society a little of what it offers us through public education.”
Convened by the University Federation of Buenos Aires, the Plato Caliente volunteer program has been carried out since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic (in May 2020, and continues to the present), and its purpose is to bring a plate of food closer to people who are on the streets.
“Sometimes when we distribute we see that small drop of joy in those people who are not having a very good time today. It fills your soul quite a bit to see a bit of that joy that you give them with a plate of hot food”, assured Gutiérrez.
Regarding the number of people who come to pick up a plate of food, the student explained that “giving a number each time we carry out a day is quite difficult” because “the number of people to whom we are distributing varies from night to night.”
Since its inception, and until last year, more than 110,000 plates of food were delivered and almost 20,000 UBA volunteers participated through the UBA in Action Program, dependent on the Secretary of University Extension and Student Well-being (Seube), as detailed by the house of higher studies.
1684370200
#Plates #hot #food #distributed #Faculty #Medicine
