More than 500 people affected by the armed conflict will benefit from the implementation of the productive projects delivered by the entity within the framework of the Special Family Support Schemes.

Supplies, elements and work materials for business units related to grocery store, miscellaneous, beauty salons, restaurants, coffee shops, confectionery, ice cream parlors, fast food and bakery, delivered to the Victims Unit in Arauquita, PDET municipality (Development Programs with a Territorial Approach) of the department of Arauca.

The initiative is implemented within the framework of the Special Family Support Schemes (EEAF) that aim to complement, harmonize or make more flexible the supply or available state strategies, seeking to address as a priority aspects related to housing, food security and income and work.

The director of the Victims Unit in Norte de Santander and Arauca, Alicia Maria Rojas Pérez, pointed out that the business units will operate in the urban area of the municipality of Arauquita where the victims of violence reside as returnees and relocated. “There are 60 business units that we deliver today to strengthen these productive projects that provide economic support to these families displaced by the violence that will improve their living conditions with the creation and economic strengthening, through these projects. They are processes that contribute to the transformation and reconstruction of the social network, generating spaces for coexistence and reconciliation as peace-building agents”, said the official.

"This incentive is very important because it allows us to start a process of reconstruction recovery in the economic sphere because the victims, in addition to being stigmatized and displaced, also lost our social roots and also our economy that we once had", said Lidia Afanador, one of the beneficiaries who thanked the Victims Unit and the territorial entity for the implementation of these initiatives.

Added to these business initiatives is the implementation of the Special Community Accompaniment Schemes, related to four endowments of communal rooms, one endowment for the woman's house and three endowments of inputs and agricultural tools to displaced families as returnees and relocated to the populated centers of La Paz, Los Chorros, El Triunfo, Aguachica and La Pesquera.

"The implementation of the EEAC (Special Community Support Schemes), seeks that the communities affected by the armed conflict in this eastern area of the country advance in overcoming the situation of vulnerability, community integration and territorial roots, as a guarantee for their permanence in the territory in which they have decided to stay indefinitely”, said the official.

This delivery is part of the national Government's compliance with the policy of "La Paz con Hechos" in the prioritized municipalities with Development Programs with a Territorial Approach (PDET).

(Fin/CEG/CMC/LMY/AEB)