In response to the requests of the Table for the Effective Participation of Victims of Puerto Boyacá (Boyacá), the Central Territorial Directorate of the Unit led a comprehensive day in which training was provided to members of the table, on topics such as participation protocol and Law 1448 in its components to protect, assist, attend and comprehensively repair the victims of the conflict in the country.
“Being prepared, empowered and that the Unit is guiding us in these advocacy and participation processes is super important. The truth was that it was a day and with the total commitment of the members of the Table and the officials of the entity”, said Claudia Saldaña Vargas, coordinator of the Board of Victims of Puerto Boyacá.
The institutional presence in this port on the Magdalena River also allowed 109 families affected by the armed conflict to benefit from the nutritional packages that the Victims Unit has been delivering throughout the country to mitigate the food crisis that the pandemic has generated in the vulnerable population that does not have other social programs of the State, likewise letters of administrative compensation were delivered.
In this regard, the coordinator of the Roundtable recognized the support of the Unit and added that “for us these markets are a relief and we are enormously grateful because we know that it is a great effort that the Victims Unit is making, reaching the entire Colombian territory with these kits”.
In another of the activities of the day, 30 young people from this municipality who reached their majority were registered as beneficiaries of the free digital certificate of the military notebook, a document that will be delivered next October and that accredits the military situation as a reservist second class and that is part of the satisfaction measures of the comprehensive reparation route to the victims.
“In the midst of this new normal, we also gradually began to make a presence in the territory. We continue to serve the victim population and we manage to articulate a team that allows us, as in this case, to provide comprehensive care according to our possibilities, but also to attend to the biosecurity measures required by the pandemic and that seeks to protect our officials and of course that of the communities we visit”, stated the director of the Central Territorial Unit, María José Dangond David.
At present, about 10% of the total population of Puerto Boyacá is listed in the Sole Registry of Victims (5,032), being in the department of Boyacá the municipality that concentrates the highest number of people who suffered damages as a result of violence.
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