The port’s Mayor announced that, on September 1st, the District's Regional Victim Assistance Center will be reopened in Matias Mulumba neighborhood.

Today, the Unit for the Victims introduced the Special Assistance Mobile Units (UMEB in its Spanish acronym), an initiative that will be implemented for attention and prevention of victimizing events in this municipality of Valle del Cauca.

These are two work teams of the Unit for the Victims, which are made up of psychosocial professionals and lawyers who will move daily in different neighborhoods to prevent violence and violent behavior events.

The launch of the UMEB was carried out in the Union de Vivienda neighborhood, a part of the areas that will be prioritized in this project, which includes Communes 7, 10, 11 and 12, as well as Township 8.

Through the UMEBs, risk situations in these sectors will be identified, documented and analyzed. In the same manner, coordinated institutional response mechanisms will be activated in terms of prevention, protection, assistance and aid to humanitarian emergencies caused by armed actors who exercise hostilities against Buenaventura’s civil population.

In addition, training spaces will be created with the community on topics such as human rights, early prevention and differential approaches, among others.

The Unit for the Victims Director, Ramon Rodriguez, specified the UMEB responds to 2021’s Early Warning AT 003 regarding imminent risk of human rights violations faced by the inhabitants of the neighborhoods prioritized.

“Las UMEB se ponen en marcha en el marco de las medidas de Prevención, Protección y Garantías de No Repetición, lo que hace parte de la reparación integral a las víctimas del conflicto armado”, precisó el director.

In this initiative, the Victims Unit has had articulation and support from Buenaventura District Mayor's Office and Valle del Cauca Governor's Office. Likewise, different state entities that will join the project’s execution supported the launch.

"We are excited about the Mobile Units because social fabric restauration is one of our priorities, and that is not achieved from the offices but from the families and communities. So, the Mobile Units is a strategy that articulates what the administration wants to do" said Buenaventura’s Mayor, Victor Vidal, who announced that, on September 1^st, the District's Regional Victim Assistance Center will be reopened in Matias Mulumba neighborhood.

Buenaventura is the second municipality in the department (after Cali) with armed conflict victim population, with 171,176 people. In this district. it is estimated that 54.6% of the population is armed conflict victim.

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