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| Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - In the town of San
Miguel de Tucuman, in Argentina, some 18,000 children are affected
by from serious malnutrition, 100 of them suffer since birth from
almost irrecoverable neurological damage. Local authorities fear
these numbers will rise when a planned censure of the whole province
is carried out. The only way to protect children from malnutrition
is to guarantee that their parents are able to provide them with
regular food, but the future is bleak. Official sources say that
60% of the population is unemployed or under-employed. While the
effects of the crisis are increasingly devastating in this country
once among the world's main food producers, solidarity is not slow
in coming. On November 25, the Hospital in St Ana, a town about
100 km south of the capital Buenos Aires, received 18 tons of medicines,
food, and brand new clothes and shoes, a gift from north American
donors. Although financial companies in the United States seem unable
to come to an agreement with Argentina to put an end to the serious
economic crisis which has lasted almost a year now, individual US
citizens do not hesitate to offer generous help to their neighbours
in the south. (Fides Service 26/11/2002)
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