With an initiative that supports groups of victims with more than a year of creation, Asepropaz, made up of producer families from the south of Tolima, benefited.

After a process of characterization and selection at the national level in June, 52 victim families are members of the Asociación Ecológica Produra de Paz (Asepropaz) based in the municipality of Planadas and whose line of action is the cultivation of organic coffees, were trained for the optimal management of a coffee laboratory and office equipment that they will receive from the Victims Unit, within the framework of the project to strengthen territorial reparation initiatives as a means of satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition.

"This is a unique project in our territory, and we are providing the processes so that it has an effective impact on the favored victims and it is in this sense that we are going step by step, such as the training in services that has been carried out previously to the delivery of the aid”, affirmed the director of the territorial María José Dangond.

The process of strengthening services was carried out during three days with 20 participants from 14 villages. The topics addressed selected by the beneficiaries themselves were the analysis of the enterprise and its environment, conflict transformation, citizen participation, Invima certification, among others.

Jhalexa Perdomo, Asepropaz legal representative, assured that it was an essential training to strengthen issues in which they had no knowledge, "and we are very grateful to the Victims Unit, because today with this initiative all the partners achieve a better understanding.

For her part, Carmen Yaneth Burbano, partner and assistant to the activity, pointed out that "this process has strengthened us because we now know tools to carry out the project and our association".

For the month of December, the Victims Unit has planned the delivery of the laboratory and the equipment contemplated by the initiative.

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