Flor Villegas, who along with her three children and her husband, left a hamlet of Cocorná in Antioquia in 2015, is one of 684 victims who were benefited from the financial compensation given by the Victims Unit in Medellín, with resources of more than $ 3,254 million. With the money, these survivors will be able to undertake new projects and improve their lives.
This woman, over 70 years of age, welcomes the resource given by the national government: “This money will help me improve my quality of life and support me, I will buy products to stock the store I have in my house, which is the livelihood of my husband and mine”. Like her, 1,300 victims of armed conflict of municipalities of Antioquia, will receive more than $ 6.7 billion as part of their integral reparation during the month of January and February.
For his part, Wilson Córdoba Mena, director of the Victims Unit in Antioquia, said that “we continue to meet the victims, with the delivery of these resources and we guide the survivors of conflict so they can recover their life projects, they can invest in the best way in productive initiatives, or a collective or individual enterprise with the accompaniment of the institutional offer of the Mayor’s Office of Medellín with which efforts can be added”.
In Antioquia, there are already more than 250,000 victims who have benefited from this measure of reparation during the eight years of implementation of Law 1448.
These add up to more than one million survivors throughout the country who already have this remedial measure, in recognition of the facts suffered, such as homicides and forced disappearance of family members, kidnappings, forced displacement, terrorist acts, personal injuries, and crimes against sexual integrity
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