The biosegura poultry farm, located in the jurisdiction of Turbo (Antioquia), is a project led by the Ministry of Labor, within the framework of the collective reparation process of this community.

Through the delivery of 2.000 laying hens, the Victims Unit seeks to strengthen and advance the biosecurity poultry farm project in sector Three of Coquitos hamlet, jurisdiction of Turbo (Antioquia), a commitment to entrepreneurship by the subject of collective reparation Nueva Colonia, with which they seek to generate employability and contribute to the economic reactivation of families in times of pandemic.

The delivery was carried out with the prevention protocols for the health emergency and coordinated through the promotion committee, whose members led the preparation and adaptation of the farm to meet the necessary conditions to receive the chickens.

"It has been an exercise of articulated work of effort, dedication, which despite the situation of the pandemic we are experiencing demonstrates that the communities are still empowered, exercising their leadership and working as a team and articulated to achieve their goals and purposes", said Dora Emilce Cano, member of the promotion committee.

The biosecurity farm, to which the Unit plans to deliver a total of 5.000 chickens, has allowed not only the inhabitants of the township to benefit, the 130 associated with San Jorge community, but also the families of the other villages that come to contribute daily the work that corresponds to them in the project, aware that it will contribute to the economic stability and food security of the subject of collective reparation.

This venture has been promoted by the group's promotion committee, through the San Jorge Communal Banana Association (AsoSanJorge), and had the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

“The project has 30 beneficiary families, who have strengthened this initiative with their contributions and self-management to be participants not only in the collective reparation measure, but also in this productive initiative that also seeks to generate income, be sustainable with the environment and contribute to the reconstruction of social network”, added Dora Emilce.

The productive initiative has linked other entities of the National System of Comprehensive Care and Reparation for Victims (SNARIV), such as the Ministry of Labor, Puerto Antioquia and Banacol-Corbanacol Social Foundation, before which, in February, Elizabeth Granada Ríos, Urabá-Darién territorial director of the Victims Unit, presented a report on the progress made in the Collective Reparation Plan for Nueva Colonia, with the aim of adding wills that contribute to this community in the Turbo district.

This report was given during the meeting of public and private entities, CUEES-PINCEL (Comprehensive Plan for New Colonia Equity and Legality), which was attended by the mayor of the special port district of Turbo, Andrés Felipe Maturana and delegates from the institutions that They make up the CUEES, who also attended the inauguration of the farm, last March.

The presented report also highlighted the strategies implemented for the recovery of social network, and other advances in the framework of the collective reparation plan, previously agreed with the community, and in which a budget investment of more than $ 400 million has been made.

(End/CYTS/CMC/LMY)