In the municipality of Segovia, of which this corregimiento is part, the Victims Unit has invested $ 18,552 million in individual reparation and humanitarian aid.

The Victims Unit conducted an inter-institutional day in the urban area of ​​Segovia (Antioquia), with the objective of complying with the collective reparation plan established for the ethnic subject of the Afro-descendant community of Machuca township (El Cristo, El Cenizo y Fraguas), as part of its integral repair.

Together with the Ministry of the Interior, the municipal administration and six other institutions, the inter-institutional recruitment day was held in Segovia, which allows the parties involved to understand the progress of Collective Reparation. At the same time, the present institutions provided this population affected by armed conflict with services for the improvement of health, education and employment, among others, bringing the municipal, departmental and national supply closer together.

According to the Collective Repair Route, with this day the enlistment phase ends to pass to the diagnosis of damage, and subsequently to the Formulation of the Comprehensive Collective Repair Plan and, finally, to the implementation.

Jhon Jairo Robledo, leader of Afro-descendant community of this territory, who participated in the day said: "We hope that with collective reparation we can access land tenure, the recovery of cultural traditions, and improvements in education".

In this regard, Wilson Córdoba, director of the Victims Unit in Antioquia, said that "in this way we advance by fulfilling the victims in the processes that are the responsibility of the entity, guaranteeing its correct implementation and generating the resources for it".

The official also explained that "in accordance with the co-responsibility of Law 1448, the Victims' Unit articulates with the entities of the State, the approach of the offer in services to this population and that, previously due to armed conflict, the institutionality could not reach territories like this".

Today there are more than 600 subjects of collective reparation throughout the country, of which 414 are ethnic subjects, 159 are Afro-descendants, 1 Rrom and 254 indigenous. Of these, in Antioquia, 9 are Afro-descendants and 6 are indigenous who are part of the 14 subjects throughout the department.

These ethnic groups are in implementation and in plans of agreement with the community, to rebuild the infrastructure and generate productive projects. Successful cases in Antioquia are registered in the municipalities of San Carlos, Algeria, San Francisco, Cocorná, Granada, Remedios, where roads, bridges, rural schools, community booths, parks, and sports courts have been rehabilitated.

In Segovia, the Victims' Unit has invested $ 18,552 million in individual reparations and humanitarian aid, to survivors of  conflict, and has delivered 2,781 compensations to victims.

(FIN/SMC/AMA/LMY)