The Victims Unit holds meetings with families affected by forced displacement, returnees and relocated to social housing.

In order to advance in overcoming the situation of vulnerability and strengthen territorial roots, the Victims Unit held the second community dialogue, this time, with families affected by the armed conflict residing in Buenavista sector 2, municipality of Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander.

“This meeting with the representatives of victims of forced displacement aims to update and adjust the actions of the return and relocations plan, to socialize the progress, achievements and objectives to be met within the framework of the comprehensive reparation plan so that our victims have access to decent social, economic and security conditions of life with a process of accompaniment by the entity”, explained the director of the Victims Unit in Norte de Santander and Arauca, Alicia María Rojas Pérez.

The official clarified that the victims who participate in community dialogues are related to forced displacement as a victimizing event, in addition, as returnees or relocated “which today are part of the Return and Relocation plan, through which the person or household victim of forced displacement decides to return to the place from which he was displaced, in order to settle indefinitely or decides to settle in a place other than the one from which he was forced to leave”.

For more than seven hours, the Victims Unit and representatives of the victims socialized the scope, the actions implemented and the challenges to be met. “For us it is to look for alternatives to improve our neighborhood, Buenavista 2. We want to look for mechanisms to favor the community where those victims who live there have a better life condition, a stable improvement of each of our homes. The approaches that are being sought is that we be a more united community in our work, in the social and cultural aspects and not have war conflicts between ourselves, so that the State entities see us as a better image of our neighborhood" said Fabio Leonardo Peña, one of the participants.

Likewise, the victims made known the progress in the accompaniment process carried out by the entity with the resident population in this sector of the metropolitan area of ​​Cúcuta. “We are grateful that the Victims Unit has taken the time to present us with the return and relocation plan for more than 300 families relocated to Buenavista 2. The empirical arts foundation has done a very good job around culture and community education and we see that this issue is being touched upon here. Recognition of our fundamental rights, security, health, education is very important to us and with this meeting we are seeing that there will be a route for all these rights to be guaranteed", said Martha Mora, another of the participants.

This exercise was carried out in Cúcuta with the returned and relocated population in Los Estoraques, and soon the activity will be carried out with the victims residing in Cormoranes.

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