Black Mission Hipólita . Initiative of the Venezuelan State and the Bolivarian Government aimed at rescuing, vindicating and guaranteeing the rights of people living on the street and the population living in extreme poverty.
Summary
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- 1 Background
- 2 Emergence
- 3 Objectives
- 4 Categories of care
- 1 Street situation
- 2 Protection and Shelter Measures
- 3 Adults who have taken the street and the consumption of psychotropic substances as their way of life
- 4 Extreme Poverty
- 5 Family Revolution
- 6 Source
Background
The forty years of governments submissive to foreign capital were a severe test for the country. The extreme poverty figures grew to alarming levels, due to the reduction in social spending prescribed by the rule of capital. The presence of homeless children and adults on the street was increasing. Neither the private sector nor the official sector proposed real and humane solutions for the care of those who were on the streets.
The search for options led to the proposal of the Black Hipólita Mission, where the Ministry of Popular Participation and Social Development converge with other entities or non-governmental organizations interested in solving this problem. It is about working on the reincorporation of the affected people to productive life and returning them to their family nucleus when possible.
The philosophy of the Mission rests on the memory of the role adopted by the slave who loved the Liberator and achieved with her love that the Father of the Nation was a full human being, capable of dreaming a different world, a free country.
Emergence
It was created on January 14 , 2006 . This action constituted one more step in the purpose of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to pay off the enormous social debt contracted for decades with the citizens of the nation.
Its operation is supported by the Social Protection Committees (community organizations that will diagnose the social situation in their social environment).
goals
Rescue, claim and guarantee the rights of people living on the street and the population living in extreme poverty. It is based on the coordination and promotion of comprehensive care for all street children and adults, adolescents and pregnant women, people with disabilities.
Attention categories
As established by the Ministry for Popular Participation and Social Development, four categories are handled for the care of the most deprived Venezuelans:
Street situation
It seeks to solve the old conception of punishment and isolation to which all those who live in the main avenues of our cities were subjected.
Protection and Shelter Measures
Their purpose is to protect all children and adolescents who have violated their fundamental rights or are in a situation of danger, risk or abandonment, as well as those young people who are under the criminal responsibility system.
Adults who have taken the street and the consumption of psychotropic substances as their way of life
For this category, Misión Negra Hipólita works first in a detoxification process through productive activities, that is, in endogenously developed homes such as El Manantial de Los Sueños.
Extreme poverty
This fourth category includes the population that subsists with a family income so low that it does not allow them to meet their basic needs and that, therefore, are potential school dropouts, child laborers or victims of the sex trade and drug trafficking. In this case, neighborhood organizations are in charge of providing the required support, including them in the different social missions present in the country’s neighborhoods.
Family revolution
The central axis of the Mission is the return to the family, since the absence of affection is what often leads to abandonment. For this reason, the Government created the figure of the Social Protection Committees (CPS), community organizations in charge of targeting cases of extreme poverty present in their communities.
The 10,700 Communal Councils activated throughout the country and the 3,800 Social Protection Committees (CPS) are in charge of evaluating the work of the Food Houses, as well as developing projects that improve their quality of life.
