La mendicidad en los alrededores de las Iglesias San José y San Alejo en Guayaquil

Abstract

Begging is known as a practice of asking for money on the street, this is due to the lack of resources and the lack of economic income, within the investigation a qualitative approach was carried out with an action-research design, whose process was It is based on the understanding of social practices in order to improve and collect data from participant observation, which takes into account the experiences of each of these older adults who live around the churches of San José and San Alejo. located in the center of the city of Guayaquil on Av. Eloy Alfaro. A communicative product (photo report) is created that shows the situation of those people who are part of the elderly and do not have sustainable resources, with this it seeks to create an inclusive and humanistic criterion through three interviews with beggars and parishioner’s bystanders. It is important to note that this photojournalism reflects each of the moods, since the camera is a fundamental factor in retracting these feelings. This type of action is not only part of a degree work, but a social work in which the arduous collaboration of merchants and parishioners was obtained, who are a fundamental part of said investigation since from the interviews and donations of the same resulted in the collaborative and little disinterested approach of those who spend both churches.