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Processes of attention to Colombians returned from Venezuela will be reinforced by the Victims Unit

During his visit to Cúcuta, the director of the Victims Unit, Ramón Rodríguez, announced a process of characterization, identification and census of Colombian victims on the border.

The director of the Unit for Integral Attention and Reparation to Victims, Ramón Rodríguez, showed the humanitarian drama of migrant population in the border and announced actions to reinforce the assistance to the returned nationals, victims of armed conflict.

During his tour of the border area, the official spoke with returning Colombians and Venezuelans who come to the country fleeing from the social, political and economic situation that crosses the neighboring nation.

He visited the house of passage Divine Providence that serves thousands of people in vulnerable conditions and said that it will be “the process of identifying them, of knowing what they are, to census them, to characterize them and to see how we can deliver humanitarian aid to them”.

Rodríguez said that the process will have the verification mechanism in minimal subsistence measurement and, in conjunction with the territorial directorate of Norte de Santander, will advance a system for collecting information with the returned Colombians who live in peripheral areas of Cúcuta and who they are inside the Unique Victim Registry.

Currently, the border area has two points of orientation for nationals returning to the country, located in the municipality of Puerto Santander and Villa del Rosario. “We have two mechanisms, the one of attention and points of orientation in the border with the liaisons and counselors for the Colombian victims who arrive and give them all the information, with the support of Colombia Transforma of the USAid, to strengthen the care process”, he explained.

The director of the Victims Unit, held a meeting with the Cucuta Bishop, Monsignor Victor Manuel Ochoa, who recognized the work of entity in the mechanism of assistance to Colombian victims. “Here in the house of passage Divine Providence there are many Colombians victims of violence and there is an articulation to give them the orientation routes of entities that should watch over them”, said the bishop.

These meetings took place in Cúcuta, in the development of a furniture delivery of Colombia Transforma program of the USAID, to improve the attention of the Regional Center of Attention to Victims of Armed Conflict in the northern capital of Santander.

(Fin/CEG/LMY)

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