- Junior League of Mexico presents campaign to help indigenous communities in extreme poverty
- Currently, in Mexico, there are around 9.3 million people living in extreme poverty
- The idea is to supply water to seven states of the republic: Campeche, Chiapas, Estado México, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Yucatán
Junior League of Mexico and the Fundación Pro México Indígena / Patronato Pro Zona Mazahua are joining in a campaign that is interesting and necessary.
It is called “The Drop of Water that Spills Help” and has the objective of collecting 15 million pesos to be able to build 500 rainwater catchment cisterns that will help thousands of families of indigenous communities in seven states of the Republic: Campeche , Chiapas, Mexico State, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Yucatán.
The situation in Mexico, mainly for indigenous communities, has historically been complex. Today, in our country there are around 9.3 million people living in extreme poverty, of which 3.4 million are from indigenous communities.
This means that, in Mexico, practically all indigenous people live in conditions of poverty; They do not have access to basic needs services, such as access to drinking water.
With these data, initially, both the Junior League of Mexico and the Fundación Pro México Indígena / Patronato Pro Zona Mazahua are in an alliance with the purpose of providing assistance to these communities with the construction of the 500 rainwater training cisterns.
According to information from Coneval, in 2021 there was an increase of 3.8 million people who now live in poverty, who do not have access to basic health services, drinking water, food, etc.
In this increase, of course, the arrival of the pandemic caused by Covid-19, a period from which we have not yet emerged and which continues to increase day by day, not only in Mexico, had a lot to do with it.
Currently, and since this began, more than 200 million infections – infected – have been counted worldwide (219,536,722 to be exact), of which, unfortunately, just over four million people lost their lives to cause of the disease (4,549,550 is the official figure).
On the other hand, in Mexico, as we have seen in the main newscasts, the situation with the presence of Covid19 has not shown improvement in terms of the arrival of the Delta variant, which is responsible, according to the health and federal authorities, of more 80 percent of the new cases that are registered daily in our country.
Mexico adds today, since day one of the pandemic, 3.37 million infected people, of which 251 thousand people died from the effects of the disease.
That, in short, has been Mexico’s experience with the coronavirus that turned the world upside down since the end of 2019, and is also responsible for the increase in the number of people who now live in poverty in the country. country.
It has not been easy, without a doubt, for any government to overcome the attacks that Covid-19 is causing in terms of unemployment, extreme poverty, among others. For indigenous communities, which historically have greater restrictions on basic services, the arrival of the virus has also been a challenge.
That is why, now, the Junior League of Mexico in conjunction with the Fundación Pro México Indígena / Patronato Pro Zona Mazahua join in the campaign “The Drop of Water that Spills Help”.
Data presented by the same campaign tells us that, on average, a Mexican spends around 370 liters of water a day, which is why, on the one hand, the population is called to take better care of the vital liquid in times of those who are running out of said resources.
On the other hand, with this aid campaign it is expected that thousands of families from various states of the republic will receive a drinking water service essential for their own development.
The idea is to combine those 15 million pesos to build 500 cisterns that will be able to hold around 15 thousand liters of water each, which will supply water to five people in a period of one month.
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