Through the Interlacing Strategy, which is part of the psychosocial approach of the Collective Reparation process in the department of Antioquia, the Victims Unit attended a group of 11 victims in the municipality of San Rafael, with the purpose of recovering the tissue social that was lost by the violence they suffered.
“My name means a faithful follower of Christ and in that way I identify with work for the social, and I have a commitment to the role of being a teacher”, says Ana Cristina Jiménez, who, apart from being employed by the municipal mayor, is interlacing in the municipality of San Rafael. This is what people who are part of this Strategy are called.
With the support of professionals of the Victims Unit, the workshop “My name and the meaning of its origin” is developed, in which each participant reveals how they can transform sadness into strengths, to reestablish the trust in themselves and pass it on to others. These tools allow communities to generate social practices, transform local scenarios and overcome collective grievances.
During the work day, with the members of the impulse committee, expressions and experiences such as that of María Consuelo Quiceno Martínez were evident, who said “my name says that it is what gives comfort to Christians, they tell me comfort of my life; my name is wonderful, because I am the comfort of others; I have never caused pain to my mother, she tells me that even when I was born she did not feel pain; I really like to accompany people in good death, to be with them at the last moment, it is a work of mercy. ”
For Wilson Córdoba Mena, territorial director of the Victims Unit in Antioquia, “the Interlacing strategy offers from the psychosocial, meet to be able to heal, thus advancing the actions that are implemented within the Collective Repair Plans that the entity executes in the whole territory”.
The official also stressed that “these Collective Reparation plans aim to recover the social fabric, recover the trust they lost between themselves and before the institutions. In addition, it allows them to resume their cultural practices that improve their living conditions collectively”.
In July, the Victims Unit will be implementing this strategy in the municipalities of Dabeiba, Yarumal, San Luis, Nariño, Betulia, Algeria, El Bagre, Ituango, San Carlos, Urrao, Alexandria, Segovia, San Francisco, and Pomegranate.
In Antioquia, the Victims Unit has 47 recognized collective reparation subjects, 14 of these with implementation plans with measures such as rehabilitation of roads, schools, bridges, parks, endowments to medical centers, educational institutions, rural health posts, cultural houses, collection centers and support for productive projects.
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