Reflections Colombian journalist Gloria Ortega Pérez on the management of resources for victims of winter in Colombia. Very much in tune with the theories of action without damage and conflict transformation
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"I think nothing is more urgent today than ensuring that resources daminificadas sacred to people, actually fulfill that purpose. In addition to [that] I have many doubts about the management of the large financial resources provided by the Colombians (telethons), national and international organizations and countries along with the government and tons resources in kind, food and emergency supplies, demand for organziación supreme executive management and complex. I went through
Cienaga, Tasajera, Palmira on the dept. Magdalena, MUNICIPALITY who have been severely affected, but not the worst are and tried to think how to make one of the thousands of tons of food markets and could get there. Just imagine what will be in the 129 municipalities of Magdalena riverine which are under water.
is clear that the poor are still poor, abandoned, excluded. The infrastructure works are urgent, there are areas that can be re-inhabited, resources will always be insufficient, but also protect hundreds of thousands of children from disease, hunger and cold.
The State and its various institutions set policies, make plans, implement the guidelines, but officials will never be but the way in places of this tragedy winter boots Pantanal (if served), doubling back and passing the difficulties passing the millions of people who have lost everything, not much, but it was how far they lived.
Nor will those of the United Nations programs that have grown into parastatals, generating advisers, consultants and analysts desktop that eat the budgets of the countries making books, brochures, events and photos for your own vanity. This was Haiti before and after the tragedy that today marks one year. That is and has historically been in Colombia in health, sanitation, social, political education. Pure speech, paper, travel, trench and annual agendas.
NGOs would have to be local, working directly with communities to facilitate their organization and care, to determine priorities for attention and articulate the department's municipal and local. It is from and for gente.Por believe that is required to link these people where there are always leaders, elected officials with whom one could count and that could do it.
Why do young people who have to perform military service to send them to social service in these places? Why not promocio0nar that universities be required to do internships for doctors, nurses, engineers, architects, journalists, human rights defenders and all professional areas of this tragedy? Why not call the thousands of women and men of the reserve of the Armed Forces to go to combat hunger, malnutrition and disease (which it must have been, only that no journalist has come to these places and been more of a note journalism) and will effectively serve to "the motherland"?
'On Friday, the Government, through the National Calamity Fund, announced the shift of the first 145 billion pesos from the governorates that provide humanitarian assistance to the victims. 62 percent will be allocated to departments on the Atlantic Coast. "
would give [us] grief, sorrow, but mostly very angry that in four years or less be reading headlines to instigate an investigation because tons of food were lost, the money ended up in the pockets of the liveliest and thousands of people died of hope and solidarity in the media. "
Sources: Gloria Ortega Pérez. Twitter:
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