Sociedad de Beneficencia de Buenos Aires

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The Sociedad de Beneficencia de Buenos Aires, also known as Sociedad de Damas de Beneficencia, or Sociedad de Beneficencia, was an Argentine charitable organization. The association was created by president Bernardino Rivadavia in 1823. The purpose was to transfer social work from the Catholic church to the association after the Argentine independence.

The first president was the patrician Mercedes de Lasala de Riglos.[1] The organisation was administered by female Argentine philanthropists from the upper classes. Among the organisations placed under the supervision of the society were schools for girls, hospitals and orphanages, such as , Hospital Rivadavia and .

In 1838, the Governor of Buenos Aires Juan Manuel de Rosas suspended state funding for the Sociedad de Beneficencia. The organization was not formally reinstated until after the end of Rosas's reign in 1852.[2] During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Socieded de Beneficencia administered various schools for girls, women's hospitals, mental institutions, and penitentiaries. The organization also contributed to charitable causes and relief funds outside of Buenos Aires.[3]

The Sociedad de Beneficencia was disbanded during the first presidency of Juan Perón in 1947, after his wife Eva Perón was not invited by the patrons. Evita was furious and moved against the society, effectively bringing it to an end. She then created the Eva Perón Foundation to replace it, which she ran and which was much more comprehensive in scope.[4]

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  1. ^ García López, Ana Belén (2016-11-07), Las heroínas silenciadas en las independencias hispanoamericanas (in Spanish), Megustaescribirlibros, ISBN 978-84-9112-679-9, retrieved 2017-11-30
  2. ^ OSPAT (2017-04-18). "La sociedad de beneficiencia: inicio y culminación". OSPAT (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  3. ^ Madrid Paez, S. (1923). Sociedad de Beneficencia de la Capital. Su mision y sus obras. 1823-1932. Buenos Aires: Talleres Graficos del Asilo de Huerfanos.
  4. ^ OSPAT (2017-04-18). "La sociedad de beneficiencia: inicio y culminación". OSPAT (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  • Laura Susana Golbert & Emilia Eugenia Roca, De la Sociedad de Beneficencia a los Derechos Sociales, primera edición. Buenos Aires, Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social, 2010. ISBN 978-987-25026-2-1 (print) ISBN 978-987-25026-2-1 (web pdf)
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