Government will deliver half the minimum wage as humanitarian aid to those affected by the winter

The NATIONAL GOVERNMENT delivered 500 HUMANITARIAN AID in the township of Santa Cecilia, Risaralda, for the victims in this area of ​​the department seriously AFFECTED by the winter wave.

Last Thursday, December 29, the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, the director of Social Prosperity, Cielo Rusinque, and the director of the Victims Unit, Patricia Tobón, toured the indigenous and Afro communities of the corregimiento, where they attended the needs of its inhabitants and announced the delivery of extra aid consisting of half a minimum wage for the inhabitants of the corregimiento.

Similarly, the Minister of Labor pointed out that there is a commitment from the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT so that this area of ​​the department can advance. The official assured that the support will not only be to offer security, because in recent months there have been difficulties in terms of public order due to the presence of illegal armed groups.

Finally, the official also concluded that she intends to conserve water and seek development processes that allow communities to live with dignity.

Through the Bolívar Disaster Risk Office (OAGRD), the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) began the payment of the second phase of delivery of livelihood support to peasants who were AFFECTED after the emergency of the rupture of the Jarillón del Río Cauca, in the sector known as 'Cara de Gato', in the subregion of La Mojana, in Bolívar, which occurred in the year 2021. Taking this into account, those who are registered in the Registry Sole of Victims (RUD), will now be able to receive the economic contribution given by the authority.

The disbursements, the authority comments, began to be made in the municipalities of Achí and San Jacinto del Cauca. It should be noted that 204 families will benefit from this process. The next delivery was scheduled for January 2, 2023, in the municipality of Magangué. According to what the director of the Bolívar Disaster Risk Office, José Ricaurte, explains, the process will be carried out through the Banco Agrario de Colombia. Citizens will have to go to the branch that best suits them in each of their places of residence.

The City Halls, Ricaurte mentions, will be in charge of verifying, validating and certifying each one of the beneficiaries of this economic support. For this occasion, 5,178 citizens are registered and under the possibility of claiming that aid. It is noteworthy that of that total, 949 did not receive their share during the first phase. The payment, remember the authority, will only be delivered to the holder, this person must present his original ID and a 150% copy.

Last Tuesday, December 27 of this year, engineer Javier Pava Sánchez, head of the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD), confirmed that between Monday, January 2, and Tuesday, January 3, 2023, the respective machinery for closing the 'Cara de Gato' gap, the opening of which generated the tragedy.

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Through the Bolívar Disaster Risk Office (OAGRD), the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) began the payment of the second phase of delivery of livelihood support to peasants who were affected after the emergency of the rupture of the Jarillón del Río Cauca, in the sector known as 'Cara de Gato', in the subregion of La Mojana, in Bolívar, which occurred in the year 2021.