Around $ 100 million delivered by the Victims Unit in this municipality of Antioquia Urabá.

In the townships of El Silencio and Piedras Blancas in the municipality of Carepa (Urabá, Antioqueño), two educational institutions were benefited with the Special Community Support Schemes on the return and relocation route, through the delivery of grants to improve the educational environment.

The award ceremony was attended by Jonnan Alexis Cerquera, municipal mayor; Guadalupe Herrera Olaya, secretary of municipal Education; María Cristina Carreño, deputy director of Prevention and Attention to Emergencies of the Unit; Elizabeth Granada Ríos, director of the Urabá-Darién Territorial Victims Unit, and other members of the community of these educational establishments.

Deliveries consist of a complete furniture for school use that contributes to the proper functioning of these educational spaces.

Among the items delivered are chairs, desks, filing cabinets, tables, furniture to strengthen the school environment, as a measure to guarantee decent living conditions, in this case the right to quality education for young people, boys and girls from the community in general, with the purpose of creating roots for the territory they inhabit.

“We are very pleased and grateful to the Victims Unit at the national and regional level, because we have received all these educational implements for two large educational centers and institutions that are August 25 and La Yaya. With this we will improve the quality of education, the educational environments, the children's pleasure in arriving at their institution, where they will have the implements to carry out their activities and their school day”, said Guadalupe Herrera Olaya.

For María Cristina Carreño, who accompanied the delivery and leads the institutional strengthening strategy of the Plan Padrino Unit, it was a profitable day: “This morning we were in the delivery of compensation to 159 victims in Apartadó and now we are in Carepa delivering endowments for two educational institutions within the framework of return plans. These are special Accompaniment Schemes, we have carried out all these activities within the framework of the Plan Padrino, which seeks to enhance everything related to the interventions made by the unit in the regions".

For her part, Elizabeth Granada Ríos, territorial director of the Unit, reiterated the commitment of the community and the territorial entity for the care of these delivered implements.

With the Special Community Accompaniment Schemes, the Victims Unit seeks to empower the returned or relocated communities to be more empowered in their process through institutional support.

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