Buenos Aires airport, unofficial homeless' shelter

Описание: (6 Apr 2023)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 6 April 2023
1. Various of Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery airport
2. Flight attendant walking by homeless people sleeping
3. Various of homeless people sleeping inside airport
4. Laura Cardoso sleeps with her two dogs among many other people
5. Cardoso and her dogs, passenger walking by
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Laura Cardoso, homeless person:
"There are many people (sleeping at the airport), more coming now. At night if you come you will see. It's full of people. There are a few now compared to the nighttime. We take refuge here because it's cold. Here at least we can sleep."
7. Passengers on escalator
8. Homeless person sleeping by the escalator
9. Gustavo Andrés Corrales and his wife Roxana Silva sleeping
10. Corrales and Silva drinking mate (a herbal drink) after walking up
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roxana Silva, homeless person:
“If I pay rent I don’t eat, and if I pay for food I’m on the street.”
12. Silva crying
13. Homeless person Pero Ángel Gómez looking for food in the trash
14. Passengers
15. Mirta Lanuara combing her hair
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mirta Lanuara, homeless person:
“When I arrived everyone was sleeping and I was a little bit shocked by that. When I saw it I was surprised.”
17. Various of homeless people sleeping inside the airport
18. Passenger working on his laptop by homeless people sleeping
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Milagros Chuquiure, Peruvian passenger:
"People who live here and who have lived here for many years! That surprised me a lot. It's the first time I see homeless people living at an airport."
20. Homeless people sleeping
21. Homeless person sleeps next to passenger Elizabet Barraza
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Elizabet Barraza, 58, passenger:
"I'm going to France, I have a job there. So I'm going there because the situation here is difficult for me. My salary is not enough to rent (an apartment). I mean, no matter how much they raise my salary, inflation is very high."
23. Various of homeless people sleeping inside the airport

STORYLINE:
At the start of the long Easter weekend, the airport in the Argentine capital is filled with homeless people sleeping.

Soon the airport will be full of travelers gearing up for a long weekend.

The Jorge Berry domestic airport becoming an unofficial homeless shelter is a reflection of the rising poverty in Argentina, which also has one of the world’s highest inflation rates.

Many find it difficult for many to make ends meet.

“If I pay rent I don’t eat, and if I pay for food I’m on the street,” said Roxana Silva, who has been living at the airport with her husband, Gustavo Andrés Corrales, for two years.

Silva gets a government pension of around 45,000 pesos, which is equivalent to $213 at the official exchange rate and about half of that in the black market.

More and more Argentines are finding themselves in Silva’s situation as the country’s inflation clocked in at an annual rate of 102.5% in February.

Although the country has been used to double-digit inflation for years, this marked the first time the annual rise in consumer prices reached triple digits since 1991.

The high inflation, which has been particularly pronounced in basic food items, has hit the poor the hardest and pushed the poverty rate to almost 40 percent.

Nearly 18.6 million people are unable to cover their basic food needs, according to official figures.

Amid the increased cost of living and diminishing purchasing power, more people started to look to the airport as a possible refuge.




“It’s packed with people.”


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