During the month of January 2019, 1,182 victims of the conflict in Antioquia will receive financial compensation as part of their integral reparation.
This was reported by Wilson Córdoba, director of the Unit for Victims in Antioquia, indicating that these survivors will receive resources for 11.715 billion pesos.
“With these public resources we intend to help them rebuild projects that improve their quality of life, although we know that it can not be compared to the damage suffered by their families by the violence of illegal armed groups,” explained Córdoba.
After completing 100 days in office, the territorial director said that in these three and a half months of management “progress has been made in the individual reparation to the victims of this department with measures such as economic compensation, emotional recovery strategy to 7,000 they, who aim in this new Government to overcome the assistance “.
In Antioquia, 982 victims of conflict were compensated between October and December with resources delivered in the amount of 4,023 million pesos, closing the year 2018 with 13,754 economic compensations delivered for a total value of 94,658 million pesos.
The official also stressed that “during this period the collective reparation plans advanced, which in the course of 2018 materialized with 61 measures in 11 plans under implementation in the department of Antioquia.
Of these plans stand out the measures delivered in the municipality of San Luis, where 154 families benefited with an investment of 155 million pesos. Also in the municipality of Urrao in the subject of Collective Reparation of La Encarnación in which 100 women benefited with productive project and strengthening their leadership capacity and cultural activities, in an alliance with Cideal (Spanish aid worker) who made an investment of around 300 thousand euros to advance in the stages of this plan.
For Córdoba, the visit of President Iván Duque to Fraguas Village (Machuca), in the municipality of Segovia, in the northeast of Antioquia, had a great impact. He said that “the President announced that 6,000 million pesos will be invested, as follows: 3,000 million in the collective reparation of the two subjects, the ethnic and the peasant, and another 3,000 million for the individual reparation of about 1,200 victims residing in this population.
It is worth remembering that on November 30, the Victims Unit coordinated the development of the day, in which 400 people were attended to which they were given personalized advice in their cases of individual reparation and in which, together with 16 public institutions – The private sector was guided on education, housing, health and employment services. At the same time, the population of Fraguas, with the support of the DIAN, was given a donation in products for the home and personal products that amounted to 270 million pesos.
