Jan
31
2019
Two Regional Centers for victim’s assistance will be operating in Bolívar this year
In Cartagena and Carmen de Bolívar, two Regional Victim Assistance Centers will be built, benefiting 266,300 survivors of conflict in 14 municipalities. The Unit will invest 5,500 million pesos in the construction and provision of said infrastructure.
Bogotá, D.C.›Bogotá, D.C.
The victims of areas heavily affected by armed conflict in the north of the country will benefit this year with the construction of a Regional Care Center in Cartagena and another in the Carmen de Bolívar municipality.
On February 7, the Victims Unit and the Government of Bolivar will formally announce the signing of agreement, which in practice is already underway, by which the departmental administration made the designs and moves forward in the procedures to allocate the properties to the construction of two Regional Centers of Attention to the Victims, and the Unit will contribute the resources for the construction and adaptation of the same.
The works will begin next April and the Centers will be delivered no later than December of this year. The cost will be $ 5.500 million and will benefit 266,300 victims who reside in 14 municipalities.
For the Regional Center of Cartagena, the Unit will contribute $ 3,000 million in the construction and provision of an area of 2,200 square meters, with all access conditions. The place will benefit especially the 144,000 victims living in Maria La Baja, Mahates, Arjona, Turbaco, Turbana, Villanueva, Santa Rosa and Cartagena.
The Regional Center of Carmen de Bolívar will have an area of 1,661 square meters, for which the Unit will allocate $ 2,500 million. The estimated victim population as beneficiary of the work is 122,300 people, who inhabit the municipalities of Zambrano, Cordoba, San Jacinto, San Juan de Nepomuceno, Ovejas and Carmen de Bolívar.
At present, there are 8 victim assistance points in Achí, San Martín de Loba, Cartagena, El Carmen de Bolívar, Magangué, San Jacinto, San Juan de Nepomuceno and Talaigua Nuevo.
The Regional Centers allow the simultaneous management of many more victims of conflict and with the offer of services from various State entities. The Points of Attention are smaller and local.