As one of the multiple activities carried out for the start of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence on 2nd October, the Municipality of Resistencia (capital of the Argentine Chaco province) and the Humanist Movement held a tree planting in Kohanoff park, located in the northern zone of the city.

According to the website Datachaco.com, Mayor Aída Ayala, Councilors Carlos Cabrera and Ebe Arechavala and the town clerks, Alicia Ogara from Planning, Oscar Bonfanti and General Walter Acevedo from Public Works and Olga Saporitti from Human Development all participated in the afforestation tasks.

The Chaco province, situated in the north of Argentina, is one of the provinces with the country’s worst social indicators: more than 40% of its inhabitants live in poverty and 20% are destitute, according to the The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC).

Likewise, it has one of the country’s largest aboriginal populations, including the wichís, qom (also called tobas) and mocovíes. Nowadays they are clashing with the provintial government, from whom they demand help in decreasing the high rates of infant mortality and malnutrition that affect them.

The complaints come on top of historical demands from the zone’s native people (for education, health, housing, nondiscrimination, land). The carrying out of events linked with the World March for Peace and Nonviolence suggests support for this cause and the recognition of its validity, already proclaimed in the National Constitution.

Events continued throughout the afternoon with a festival in the *Universidad Popular*, organized by the educational establishment with the support of the Resistencia Municipality, the Community for Human Development and the Provintial Institute of Culture.

The world mobilization is expected to arrive at Resistencia to visit Park Kohanoff on 26th December. The park is free to access as a place of study and reflection, similar to that found in Punta de Vacas, Mendoza, where the World March’s journey will end on 2nd January.

*(Translation provided by James Rupert Spedding)*