be within the framework of a united venture called Project Southern Cross for Education launched in 2006 by a renowned pediatrician Buenos Aires. Islands Senator asked the Senate declared the event of legislative interest.
Ibicuy ISLANDS. October 1927. On 29, 30 and 31 October next three schools in Villa Paranacito receive more than 30,000 books donated as part of a joint cross called Cruz Project Education South. Delivery, supported by the local municipality, shall be paid by the creator and promoter of this initiative, the renowned physician Buenos Aires, Dr. Ruben Sosa and his team.
distribution libraries are held in establishments No. 14 "Fray Mocho" No. 7 "Juan Bautista Alberdi" -located on the islands, " School and Special Education "Our Lady of the Rosary located in the local village head of the Department. Dr. Sosa projected in 2006 to unite the four corners of the country through the establishment of libraries in schools in border. The town of Villa Paranacito closes that cross-imagined by the prominent pediatrician already created by: Peace Mission (Salta), Los Antiguos (Santa Cruz ) and Calingasta (San Juan ).
"With Cruz del Sur for Education, we are telling kids that without education the country is lost, and they they are lost, "said the doctor. He added: "The responsibility lies with the State and is ours, to create awareness regarding this particular point. When you educate a boy, he is giving a high level of health too. "
All activities will take place from Thursday to Saturday 31, "Islander Day" day which is also carried out visits and talks to promote and protect health. Referring to the latter, they will be dictated by Sosa himself.
worth noting that both the visit of professional solidarity, as their invaluable contribution of bibliographic material of interest will be declared legal by the Upper House this week, at the request of senator Eduardo Melchiori (Ibicuy Islands - PJ).
Ruben Sosa. A doctor who understands the business from the heart
Dr. Rubén Omar Sosa is a pediatrician and infectious disease known for its particular way of understanding medicine from a humanitarian standpoint, for love and dedication he brings to his patients. H ace 25 years working in the Hospital "Dr. Pedro de Elizalde ", where he also teaches at the Department of Pediatrics, National University of Buenos Aires. He also developed his profession in the Hospital "Churruca" which received the "Honor of Merit for his work.
The work developed by Dr. Ruben Sosa, while vocational, part of a way of understanding and addressing the medicine. "I can not imagine the consultation which ends in the recipe, for me it does not end there, "he says modestly quietly but passionately.
From his radio show - "Stories in the Air" - or from the office, Sosa to their patients and invites listeners to embark on cross solidarity or "massive kites" with motto for life. "I use my profession to lower lines of promotion and protection of health. Each kite we've made have, in each case, a denominator. One of these meetings was on drugs, one against the snuff, and another was to raise awareness about organ donation, to name a few, "he says enthusiastically.
En una entrevista telefónica, aunque muy a mena, el Dr. Sosa respondía a mis inquietudes sobre su poca ortodoxa labor.
¿Se siente sólo en esta cruzada?
-No me siento solo. Si así fuera, quién pudiera traer 25 mil libros, quién pudiera enfrentar la Cordillera de Los Andes y quién llena el cielo de barriletes. En un comienzo, por supuesto que algunos me miraron de soslayo por ser un pediatra que remontaba barriletes. Esto estaba alejado de toda la estructura médica. Pero once you understand the philosophy, a fact that took me 17 years to understand it, accept it, in fact we have received many awards.
do other professionals have imitated?
"Do not imitate it, but go with it. Nowhere in the world is an experience of this kind and scale that, in our case, has reached the national level.
how the project is Southern Cross?
-In 2002 planting was over 4 000 trees on contaminated sites in the framework of "Laura."
I get the award for "Doctor of the Year - Merit for Primary Health Care" at the Sheraton Hotel in Mar del Plata. He was very thin in this place and I said, "What am I doing here, if I am a hospital doctor that I see kids every day," I felt bad. However, etymologically speaking, Award means "starting point". I then ask: "Am I here to receive only one prize?" I replied only: "No. There must be something. " There was just a teacher wichí who gave a talk showing all the things that were missing and the work they were doing in a place called Mission La Paz in Salta, 2,200 km from Buenos Aires. I said: "This man has no library, and if today every child brought a tree could do the same to collect books." That's how I came to ask my patients to make a kite, to collect books The Quest for Peace. We came to collect 10 thousand. When I'm out of retirement to keep the books, I meet a friend of Greenpeace called Jorge Faggiano, which was as a rural teacher in Los Antiguos (Santa Cruz). What a coincidence, I said, I'm going up 2,200 km and 2,200 km you down. I asked if he library and told me there was a more than six thousand copies. I had this idea, and it was on this trip that I got the idea of \u200b\u200ba library in every cardinal point of Argentina. Then he threw away because at that time, it seemed crazy. "How was keeping the books and to get around?"
The following two years I dedicated myself to making kites against snuff and drugs. But in August 2006, my friend George (Faggiano) sends me a message saying: "Reuben, I burned the school library and everything." I thought there was time to start with that old idea and took the initiative. After a year with 17 000 books and take them to the Ancients, with the help of a patient friend. This fact is documented in the program's website ( www.historiasenelaire.com.ar ) . When we got to school, ask a teacher two rules and a map of Argentina and a Mission La Paz with the Ancients. I take the third right and shot the other ruler to see where it falls and then decide the East and West where I have to go. Western touches me in a mountainous area that I did not know called Calingasta (San Juan) and where, a year-2007-after southern deliver 25 000 books. The other end was the crossing was Villa Paranacito where I decided, at that time, going in two years. And so was history.
(Interview by Ramiro Maradey in August 2009)
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