Dear John,

Can you imagine visiting a doctor these days who isn't using advanced technology to record your vitals and process your information?

Recently the Atlas Network team visited a community center on the outskirts of metropolitan Buenos Aires to see how social workers are using computers to manage their workflow.

Computers are a vital tool in social service provision, but for many people around the world, they're just prohibitively expensive.

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Centro Conin, which is located near the Rio Luján in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Tigre, was founded to help prevent child malnutrition, and social workers and teachers on staff provide nutritious meals, medical care, and vocational education classes. There's a preschool on site as well, and the center is dedicated to helping families stay healthy and build the skills they need to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. But until recently, the center couldn't afford the technology that made it easy to record the needs of their clients.

Computers in Argentina were subject to a 35 percent tariff that jacked up the price and essentially put basic technology out of reach of most consumers. Pilar Rodriguez, one of the social workers on staff spent a lot of time on record-keeping, since the center couldn't afford to buy the computers that would help her help families in need.
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It's always amazing to see how a simple change in public policy can have a powerful impact on the lives of real people. At Libertad y Progreso, an Atlas Network partner based in Buenos Aires, their efforts to end the tariff have resulted in real change for the staff at Centro Conin, who can now focus on services that help them do their jobs better.

One of my colleagues at Atlas Network, Kelia Busby, was part of the team on the ground at Centro
Conin, and her first-person ([link removed]) account ([link removed]) of what she saw accompanies the video directed by Charlie Fritschner and the evocative photos by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Rodrigo Abd.
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Thanks again for all that you do for Atlas Network. The response to our series of videos ([link removed]) on the ways in which economic freedom is helping people lift themselves out of poverty has been overwhelmingly supportive, and I greatly appreciate your interest in and support of our work.

We've begun filming the next videos in our series of stories (we're headed to Ukraine and Lithuania soon!) and we have more exciting content to share with you, including the publication of Poverty and Freedom, a new book edited by Atlas Network President Matt Warner—we can hardly wait! Perhaps you might
join us at Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner ([link removed]) to hear more about what is happening with our work to help advance locally grown solutions that are alleviating poverty around the world. I hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Melissa
Melissa Mann
Vice President of Communications
Atlas Network

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