Abstract

CASTELLAR PATERNINA, Everly; MONTES, Luz Marina; FORBES, Edwin  and  MARTINEZ, Carmen. Situation of poverty carries to extreme: A case in Colombia. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.2, pp.205-219. ISSN 0120-5552.

Objective: To describe the conditions of extreme poverty in which the children live in Villa Clarín, basing on your educational, environmental, socio-economic environment and of health. Materials and methods: this research are of qualitative character with research participative action and ethnography. The population object belong 80 children minors of the Institución Educativa Departamental Villa Clarín and 20 adult inhabitants. There was in use the technology of observation and semi-constructed survey before checked by experts, whose axles were: existential experiences in the home and the school, situation perceived by the community in your diary to live, conditions of health reported, we had the support of the community leaders. Results: The poverty about these children is similar to that of African countries: complete marginality; with deep desires of overcoming without institutions that protect them, strengths in the middle of the difficulty. From the perspective of the parents and teachers of the school, the lack of resources is highlighted and small governmental help that does not allow them him to give a good personal and professional formation to your children. Equally the subhuman environment of the diary is highlighted to live of the children, the precarious and risky conditions of local unhabitability and the environmental factors. Conclusions: The conditions most emphasized in the daily thing are: psychological deprivation, bad communication, education of low quality, inadequate infrastructure, lack of exit ramps, unhabitability, inconformity of the population, ambition of change of life.

Keywords : Protection; poverty; hygiene; family; marginality.

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