Representations of victims from the 14 municipalities that make up the Urabá-Darién territory of the Victims Unit, were present at the first Building Country 2020 workshop, whose headquarters was Apartadó, the most populous municipality in the Urabá subregion (Antioquia).

The Urabá victims were present at version 43 of Building a Country workshop, which was held at San Francisco de Asís school in Apartadó, and was led by the President of the Republic, Iván Duque Márquez and his cabinet.

The director of the Department of Social Prosperity, Susana Correa, and the director of the territorial Urabá-Darién of the Victims Unit, Elizabeth Granada Ríos, also participated.

The attendees were able to formulate concerns and requests through the glass ballot box installed at the entrance to the premises, and in the development of the workshop, they were randomly formulated and responded to or addressed to the competent ministry.

Among the concerns raised on the subject of victims, the survivors asked the president to strengthen the operational capacity of the Regional Service Center, located in Obrero neighborhood of Apartadó.

The territorial director of the Unit announced the different measures that have been implemented to streamline the delivery of shifts in the regional center of Apartadó, which serves the population of this municipality and 63% of the population of the subregion.

For his part, President Duque affirmed that so far in his term “more has been done in terms of reparation than in the previous 24 months, and in terms of reparation we want to accelerate. Apart from this exercise, we are enabling more tools for collective reparation".

Susana Correa, director of Social Prosperity Department, announced important budgetary efforts for collective and ethnic individual reparation: “This 2020, we are going to invest a trillion pesos in reparation for victims of armed conflict. 510,000 people in individual and collective reparation processes”.

The Apartadó Regional Care Center was opened in 2014 to serve the 353,374 victims subject to care in the Urabá and Darién sub regions, made up of 14 municipalities, 10 in Antioquia and 4 in Chocó.

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