A person who tries to make a better world

By Gisela and Macarena

Juan Carr is a veterinary surgeon and biology teacher who founded, together with his wife and three friends, an NGO called “Red Solidaria”. This NGO tries to unite people who need something with people who can give something too.
When he was twenty-five years old, Juan Carr had cancer, which turned him into a more sensitive person and he started to help people who were in the same situation as him.
In 1995 he founded Red Solidaria. Their first experience was helping a child who needed a blood transfusion. They needed eight donors and 140 people answered the call.
At the beginning the NGO received lot of calls from people who needed help but nowadays Red Solidaria receives calls from people who want to give clothes, medicines and their time to help others.
Red Solidaria has also carried forward a project to promote reading in Argentina. Also, Missing Children is part of the NGO which tries to find lost children.
Juan Carr thinks that people show solidarity only with the environment or social problems, but it shouldn’t be like this. People must always help, all the time. His dream is to eradicate hunger in the world, or at least in Argentina.
Carr is an optimistic person, who in 2008 was nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Price, and who a lot of people consider a most trustworthy and enterprising man.