{"id":5916,"date":"2012-01-17T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2012-12-11T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:03:24","slug":"concealed-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5916","title":{"rendered":"Concealed charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

This moved me<\/a>. It is a make believe restaurant in Vigo in which unemployed parents in Spain take their children to \u201ceat out\u201d. They take turns as volunteers. It is really a charity that makes children believe that their parents can afford to take them out to a restaurant. I felt so bad for those parents.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t live in Spain and you come here and go around you would be surprised. Spain is actually a wealthy country in global terms and it doesn\u2019t look poor when you travel around here. But since the construction industry collapsed unemployment grew from 8% to 21%<\/a>. Basically all of those who worked in that industry are having a very hard time finding a new role in the economy for themselves. The collapse of real estate had a tremendously negative multiplier effect. It is a huge part of the population that is in such bad shape and it will probably take a decade for unemployment to go down to where it was in 2008. In the meantime initiatives like this help alleviate the pain of those who have fallen into poverty.<\/p>\n

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This moved me. It is a make believe restaurant in Vigo in which unemployed parents in Spain take their children to \u201ceat out\u201d. They take turns as volunteers. It is really a charity that makes children believe that their parents can afford to take them out to a restaurant. I felt so bad for those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,82],"tags":[311,732],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-2","category-spain","tag-charity","tag-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t