The Victims' Unit provided humanitarian aid to 70 returned indigenous families from the cities of Bogotá and Ibagué to the municipality of Pueblo Rico, Risaralda, with the objective of providing them with decent living conditions, contributing to their permanence in the territory.

After finding themselves in difficult conditions, including begging, in the cities of Bogotá and Ibagué, the Embera Indians decided to return to their ancestral reserves with family and friends from the hand of the Victims Unit through the group of returns and relocations and the local administrations, last December.

Thus, all the returned and receiving families received from the governmental entities of the national and territorial order, an important contribution to restart their lives in the place from which they had to leave because of armed conflict, becoming displaced.

In addition to humanitarian aid represented in markets, once they arrived from the cities to which they had been displaced by forces beyond their control, the survivors also received a tool kit, money for the transfer of equipment and seeds to be planted in the ancestral territory.

"It is a very rewarding task that is done with the families returned to the shelters in Pueblo Rico, today we give them three tons of food, which represents approximately $ 21 million in investment for the Unit, but without a doubt the most important thing is to be able to provide guarantees for them to stay at home and with the people who saw them grow, "said Laura Moreno, territorial director of Unit.

After the delivery of the aid, one by one the returned and receiving families (who receive those who arrive), started the way back home on trails located one, two and even five hours away on the back of a mule.

Armando Siagama, local governor, expressed his approval for this process: "So far we have not had any problem because they have been complying with the aid as agreed. We are very happy to have our relatives back home and we can be united as embera, of course we need more programs to continue improving our lives and that is why we are pending projects to work on farms".

During the meeting with the officials of Unit, the indigenous community also showed the need to advance health brigades and solutions in housing issues in order to be able to coexist more calmly in their safeguards, the themes are being managed from the entity with the relevant institutions, to meet as soon as possible with a meeting to clear all doubts in that regard.