These Embera communities in Antioquia receive food aid from the Victims Unit and, in some cases, support in return and relocation plans.

With the delivery of humanitarian aid to 58 indigenous families in the municipalities of Andes and Urrao, in Antioquia, the Unit for Comprehensive Assistance and Reparation to Victims continues with ethnic assistance to these communities who suffered displacement due to the armed conflict forced in the past.

In the urban area of ​​Urrao, 27 Embera indigenous families from the community of La Cristalina and La Junta received humanitarian assistance in kind, consisting of food and hygiene kits, kitchen, dishes and habitat. These family groups come from El Carmen de Atrato and Bagadó (Chocó) and the Majoré Ambura shelter (Urrao, Antioquia).

In the Andes, 15 displaced indigenous families, located on the Quebrada Arriba village, benefited from tons of food and other items for their support. Another 16 families were relocated in the Santa Isabel sector of Santa Inés district.

According to Wilson Córdoba Mena, territorial director of the Victims Unit in Antioquia, “with this delivery of humanitarian aid, which is carried out every month, food assistance and security is guaranteed to this displaced population for as long as vulnerability remains derived from the victimizing fact”.

The official said that "for more than eight years these communities have been served, while they are agreed with their return to the sites of origin or their relocation to restore their rights".

Returns and relocations

The Victims Unit has accompanied 212 communities in their return process, of which 196, equivalent to 38,937 people with accompaniment, still remain in those territories.

In November 2016, 58 Embera-Katío families, who lived in vulnerable conditions in the Niquitao (Medellín) sector, and received humanitarian aid, returned to the shelter in Alto Andágueda (Chocó), thanks to the return plan implemented with support of the Mayor's Office of Medellín and the government of Antioquia.

For this year, the Unit has as a priority to accompany 72 communities returned with projects that contribute to the restoration of the rights that make up the situation of vulnerability.

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