The victims will be accompanied by the Victims Unit in the Workshop Building a Country in Guainía

The Victims Unit has compensated 357 survivors of armed conflict since 2011 in this department. It has also invested in co-financing projects for the benefit of 140 families, and advances with 5 subjects of ethnic collective reparation who will start the care route. The entity will be present this June 8 in the Building a Country Workshop, to listen to the needs of victims.

In the Guainía according to data of National Administrative Department of Statistics Dane, 40,203 people reside, of which 16.2% declared to have been affected by some type of violent fact, thus leaving, in the Unified Victims Registry, 6,516 individuals as subjects of attention and reparation by the Colombian State.

The Victims Unit since the entry into force of Law 1448 of 2011, in this department has served 882 people on procedures, requests, document updates and other procedures of an administrative nature, at the Point of Care facilities, located at the 18th Street No. 80 of the Comuneros district, of Inírida.

Likewise, in 2016 a co-financing project was executed with the Government that benefited 140 families, with a total investment of $ 1,500 million.

In the line of psychosocial attention, a strategy that seeks to repair the emotional affectations left by the war in Colombians, the Unit benefited more than 400 people over the years, who from the accompaniment managed to forgive and reconcile with the past, to move forward with their life projects.

The National Director of the Unit, Ramón Rodríguez, highlighted the compliance with the effective delivery of administrative reparation, “there are 357 survivors of armed conflict compensated for a value that exceeds $ 1,920 million since 2011, contributing to the realization of productive projects, and investment in topics such as housing purchase, and higher education of children, among others”.

“During 2019, 12 victims received compensation for more than $ 60 million, and 5 subjects of ethnic collective reparation have been notified, which allow compensation for the community effects of ancestral peoples who saw their rights violated and survival in territories. We will be in the Workshop Building Country in Inírida, listening to the needs of victims to continue fulfilling them”, confirmed the director.

Hugo Chequemarca Córdoba, member of the Tables of effective participation of municipal and departmental victims, affirmed that “for us, the victims of conflict it is very important to be able to have President Duque in Inirida and be able to present our requests directly to him and his team, we will also highlight the exercise that the Unit is carrying out”.

(Fin/EVA/LMY)

 

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El Resguardo Ampuile o Ambaló, ubicado en el municipio de Silvia, Cauca, resguardo ha sido víctima de todos los tipos de violencia, donde actores armados han desarmonizado su territorio con incursiones y hostigamientos.