translated from Spanish: Former MasterChef revealed he was in “three Sename centers”

Former MasterChef participant Ignacio Román was on Monday at “Viva la pipol”, where he referred to Chile’s social crisis and the unemployment of garbage collectors. Before he rose to fame, the kitchen expert worked for several years in this area. “At last that gap of fear of not saying things was broken, there is a great lack in the issue of garbage collection that is security. (…) For me it’s a tremendous and wonderful job. I set out to pick gum in Santiago Centro, it was my first job that many people see as little thing and for me it was something very big,” he said. In addition to his opinion on the contingency, he also addressed how he was a part of his life. “I was in three centres of the Sename, in one where many children died and another i always visit. In Chile there are opportunities, the idea is that the doors will be opened, that we are all the same, that we can get on the mic and empathise with the one next door,” he said. He also claimed the work of his peers. “I make it clear, I was a garbage collector, we’re not dumpsters. The dumpsters are in a corner to dump the paper. (…) I went hungry and cold, because you work in rain and wet, and that’s what people don’t see. I am proud and grateful to have represented my colleagues at some point,” he concluded.

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