Mar
26
2020

Victims Unit and World Bank benefited communities of Jambaló and Pitayó (Cauca)

The strategic alliance allowed reaching surviving communities of conflict with sports equipment and technological equipment, in these two reserves of Nasa people.

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In the framework of collective reparation for the communities of Jambaló and Pitayó Shelters, the Victims Unit together with the World Bank managed, during 2018 and 2019, to contribute to the closure of measures of restitution and satisfaction for the survivors of conflict in Cauca.

The provision of soccer balls and volleyballs, meshes to set up courts, a variety of uniforms, among others, was made to the Collective Reparation Subject of Nasa indigenous community of the Jambaló reservation, where approximately 300 children from the clubs and schools benefited. sports, allowing support to processes in sports training schools.

Similarly, the Pitayó reservation in the municipality of Silvia received the construction and provision of the town hall house and cultural center of the ancestral territory, where furnishings and technological equipment were delivered.

Dan Harry Sánchez Cobo, territorial director of the Victims Unit in Cauca, indicated that "with an investment of more than 1,300 million pesos in the department, 43 subjects of collective reparation belonging to ethnic and non-ethnic communities have been managed, which has allowed, in association with the World Bank, to strengthen the political, civic and productive capacities from its use, in addition to enhancing the beliefs and customs of their cultures".

These strategic alliances with international cooperators have made it possible to advance in the comprehensive reparation of victims of armed conflict in Cauca.

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