Compassion Direct UK
supporting children in the streets, schools & shanties of South America
PACO THE POVERTY DRUG
Paco or Pasta de Cocaina is a cheap, highly addictive street drug used by children and young people living on the streets and in the villas miserias—shanty towns, of South America. If Cocaine is considered the drug of the rich and powerful, Paco is its counterpart on the other side of the social scale. The effects of this lethal drug are short term leading to desperate requirements of up to 60 fixes a day. Crime is the result of a fatal mix of addiction and poverty. Paco kills quickly! Life expectancy is between one and six months! The drug creates irreparable damage to the brain & internal organs & rapid loss of body weight due, not only to the drug, but lack of food. Drug gangs in the villas miserias produce Paco from the residue of pure cocaine powder formerly considered ‘lab trash’. Even then it is often mixed with powders such as the residue of fluorescent light tubes . More than 500,000 young people are currently addicted - taking account of the rapid death rate makes this figure difficult to estimate. CDUK hope that the provision of workshops and opportunities for change may saves just a few of these young lives? The Chairman was chatting to a project worker the Could you help us by donating £5 a month to Compassion Direct UK via our fundraising site on www.mycharitypage.com My Charity Page will collect Gift aid from your donation if you wish and pay the money directly into our bank account. 
The drug costs less than 20 pence a fix $1 peso.
