Money, money, money ... FINANCIAL situtation many Ecuadorians and Ecuadorians leaves little room for maneuver and negotiation options when it comes to work: Basically, every job has to be accepted so badly paid and so unworthy of it (in our eyes) also may be! Every dollar that is earned is precious, and the state support of thirty-five dollars a month for poor and / or old people in the country ranges from barely enough to feed a family and is designed for urban women and city dwellers no more than charity.
My host mother Delia lives in Pucará not really. She moved back there four years ago, because there are houses for needy Were people for whom we had only a few hours to do gemmeinnütziger work and pay one hundred and thirty dollars - work she found not. So they decided to move to Garcia Moreno, a small town, an hour bus ride located deep in Intag. There, she lives in a hut made of plastic, which I'd like to meet next week, and works in agriculture. It deserves five or six dollars a day if it helps with the harvest - that's more than they would get paid in Pucará. The fact that they only occasionally work has and can not be the issue of job security, they hardly bother: Somehow, she brings her children (and grandchildren) of ends meet and live close to relatives.
Anders Fernando here seems to tick. He is the husband of Paula, one of the two remaining English teachers of the English school, I work for, and father of two young children. Paula works in
Consorcio Toisán , a nongovernmental organization based in Apuela as a secretary and has a fixed income. In addition, they can rinse their teaching always money in the family budget. Nevertheless, Fernando has decided to leave Intag: In order to finally stop worrying about his job. In Intag although he has diligently and frequently worked on various construction sites and earns accordingly - the wage is for an ordinary worker about ten dollars a day, for a maestro
(specialist or general foreman) 12:00 to 15:00. But he could never be sure whether there would be the next day, next week, next month even work.
Now Fernando is working in
Oriente, in eastern Ecuador, the Amazon basin. Where oil and is related to money. He worked there for two weeks and then have just under a week's vacation time for the family. He does deserve the jungle four hundred and fifty dollars per month, accommodation, meals, tools and work clothes and their clothes are paid by the company. What work he follows closely in the East, could not even explain Fernando really: He works as to where he was needed.
means Ironically, Fernando's new employer
petrochemical amazonas , a company in the Amazon basin - more precisely, the Bloque 15, near the nature reserve
Cuyabeno ,
in the Julian and I went last November - produces oil and processed, and will certainly be more than enough causes damage to flora and fauna. It is the employer of Paula, the Consorcio
Toisán a Organistation dedicated to protecting the environment and helps to fight against mining in Intag ... Because
the money is going to change tomorrow, the composition of my host family: Mayra, my older host sister will break up with her daughter Domenica to Loja. This is in the south of the country, where her paternal grandparents live. Mayras grandmother wants her granddaughter to help her in the home and offers to pay for accommodation, food and the costs for their studies. This is an offer that can reject Mayra impossible for financial reasons, although they would not be too far away from home and really study medicine, and accounting: The course seems to be in Loja for them the only possible one.
Ever I have the impression that almost all study Studiernenden Ecuador either tourism or accounting. Whether because later the possibilities of finding a job are great, I doubt ...! Should I be taught a lesson, I will tell them of course!
