After a wave of criticism against him for seeking to end the wellnessthe president of the Republic, Gustavo Petroremained firm in his decision to prohibit this supplement to feed unprotected children in Colombia through the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF). Recently, the president spoke again on the subject.
Various personalities such as the former president ivan dukethe former director of the ICBF Lina Arbelaez, among others, they questioned the announcement of the head of state. However, Petro assured that in the country they were used to caring for low-income minors in dire conditions and, furious, he left a harsh message.
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“We got used to poor boys and girls taking care of themselves in a little room donated by a community mother from the poor neighborhood who was not paid and in exchange the welfare was given. No gentlemen, the childhood of Colombia is not treated like this ”, assured the President through his Twitter account; In addition, she came out in defense of community mothers who shelter unprotected infants in their homes and receive help from the ICBF.
“Community mothers must become official workers and must become professionals in the comprehensive care of children. Poor children must be cared for by professionals from the ICBF and their care must be comprehensive in the family or institutional setting,” Petro pointed out.
In addition, once again he reiterated that the Well-being should be discarded to attack malnutrition suffered by various infants in the country such as those of La Guajira. In fact, recently, there have been several cases of minors who died for not having to eat.
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Along these lines, Petro assured that the food programs that his government will finance must be produced in the same department for which it is distributed. This, after ensuring that the Well-being is imported. However, This is false. There are several plants of this supplement in multiple places in Colombia. However, Petro considers that it begins with the production of other foods for infants “It will help build food sovereignty and regional economic growth.”
In addition, he gave details of how he seeks to fight against hunger and thus end child deaths they have nothing to eat. Like the indigenous people of the Wayú community in Guajiro territory. “Child malnutrition disappears if the family, the neighborhood and the village stop being hungry. It is not targeting, it is with the universal right to food that malnutrition and infant mortality are corrected”, added.
In his extensive Twitter thread, the president also urged local and departmental authorities so that they not only guarantee food to the smallest colombians in the house, but also other factors such as preschool education. He even assured that childhood should be left in the hands mainly ofe Family Welfare and become in charge of another portfolio.
“(…) The institution par excellence that attends it must stop being the ICBF and the responsibility must be assumed by the ministry of education, culture and by the municipalities through a reformed SPG”, suggested the head of state .
In fact, within the substantial changes that Petro wants for the country, he contemplated that, from now on, mandatory preschool lasts three years. “While the public preschool grows in the country, the ICBF will maintain the attention of children between 3 and 5 years old”, ordered the president.
He even urged the nation’s higher education institutions to likewise collaborate with the State in the provision of education: “Every public or private university center must adapt services to attend early childhood sons and daughters of the student body and the workforce,” concluded President Gustavo Petro.
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