Next door to the richest neighbourhood in Buenos Aires live some of the country’s poorest people – in a community not even recognised by the authorities.
Their home is called Villa (Shantytown) 31, one of 56 in Argentina’s capital city. Officially, Villa 31 does not exist, but non-government organization ACIJ (The Civil Association of Equality and Justice) is changing that by mapping the municipality, giving the 80,000 inhabitants addresses, thus enabling them to be officially recognized as part of the population of Buenos Aires and Argentina.
