Jun
07
2019

Jiw peoples from Meta received humanitarian aid

The inhabitants of these communities are displaced by armed conflict, which is why the Colombian State develops integral attention and reparation strategies with a differential approach for indigenous peoples and communities victims of violence.

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The Victims' Unit carried out the delivery of humanitarian food aid and cleaning kits to 56 indigenous families of the jiw community located in the health center, urban center of Puerto Concordia and in the rural settlement of Luna Roja, in the limits of Meta and Guaviare.

The inhabitants of these communities are victims of forced displacement, which is why the Colombian State develops strategies of attention and reparation to guarantee its survival.

Carlos Arturo Pardo Alezones, director of the Unit for Meta and Eastern Plains, indicated that the Unit carried out these deliveries of humanitarian aid within the framework of Law 1448 of 2011 and the regulations that guide integral attention and reparation with a focus differential for indigenous peoples and communities victims of violence.

"The nutritional package is composed of proteins, cereals, flours, oil, carbohydrates, among others and should be used only for the purposes established in order to humanitarian assistance of indigenous communities after evaluations of their minimum subsistence conditions in what has what to see especially with food and housing", concluded the territorial director.

In total, more than 200 jiw indigenous people residing in these territories, grouped in family nuclei, benefit from this delivery.

(Fin/EVA/LMY)