The Victims Unit has provided aid to families identified as being more vulnerable due to the COVID-19 crisis.

In search of mitigating the effects of the economic crisis due to the health emergency generated in the population victim of armed conflict, the Unit for Comprehensive Attention and Reparation to Victims this week completed the delivery of 1.471 food packages to victim households in the 23 municipalities from the department of Atlántico with higher vulnerability conditions.

The food kits packed in boxes that included rice, beans, powdered milk, panelas, salt, brown sugar, coffee, chocolate, wheat flour and precooked flour, pasta, oil, tuna loin, among others, were delivered to the mayors, who appointed their municipal victims or government secretaries to receive and carry out the formal distribution of the kits, complying with biosafety measures.

For its part, the District of Barranquilla, in the company of officials from the Atlantic Territorial Directorate, delivered this humanitarian aid in kind with the collaboration of the representatives of the city's Victims Participation tables with the respective lists of vulnerable victim homes. In Barranquilla, 158 families benefited and in Soledad 133.

Carlina Buelvas, 67 years old, who is a displaced victim from Ciénega, Magdalena, and declared her facts in 1991, was one of the beneficiaries of this kit. Currently, she resides in Villate neighborhood with two of her daughters, and with her granddaughters.

“That kit helped me a lot, really thank you very much. I made spaghetti with garlic, spaghetti with tuna, chocolate, noodle rice, corn, tuna rice and I still have chocolate and pasta. Here we help each other to get food. Sometimes I make special meals because I like to cook for parties” said Carlina, thanking the Unit for the food received.

The Victims Unit implemented this strategy from June to date, with which it has delivered 34.238 feeding kits in 24 departments to solve the effects of compulsory isolation as a complementary action to the development and compliance of humanitarian aid measures and administrative compensation that have been delivered in the same way. every month it trains the victims of armed conflict in Colombia.

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