Proteção social emergencial na pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 Pandemic has unveiled social and territorial inequalities in recent years, has strongly affected the Brazilian social protection system, which, despite being constitutionally guaranteed by the State, has no structure to help the most needy population in Brazil. In view of this, pressure from social movements and other segments of the working class were formed and demanded a position from the State. This “charge” resulted in the creation of aid at the national and state levels to assist users of social policies. With the fragility of the State in meeting the demands and needs of the population, organized civil society articulated actions in order to contribute to the population not being literally forgotten, an example of these actions was the Project “Ajuri pela Vida na Amazônia”, operationalized in some municipalities in Amazonas, such as Parintins. The present work analyzes the emergency measures of social protection in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the particular contribution of the Project “Ajuri pela Vida na Amazônia”. As a methodological procedure, documentary and bibliographical research was used, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, and based on dialectical historical materialism. The results indicate that the Covid-19 Pandemic expressed the contradictions and inequalities present in Brazilian society, while requiring state intervention, however not reciprocated as demanded by the diversity of users of social policies, especially in the Amazonian context. Thus, the Ajuri for Life in the Amazon Project, despite its limits, contributed to the reality of families and individuals who (over)live in the rural reality of the municipality of Parintins.