However, there is still a long way to go because those living in severe poverty (the hardest poverty), in other words, those affected by both monetary and multidimensional poverty, continue to number nearly 1.2 million people in Chile (6.1%), marked by profound deprivation in income, housing, health, and education, along with long histories of inequality and a lack of social connections. Hogar de Cristo focuses on hard work and prioritizes directing its major efforts precisely toward that population. As a reference, multidimensional poverty (based on CASEN 2024) is nearly 3.5 million (17.7%).