In Sucre, students walk kilometers to attend classes - Other Cities - Colombia

Students from the rural area of ​​the municipalities of Since and El Roble in Sucre, they have to walk several kilometers to reach the Educational Institutions and enter classes in person, now with the reactivation ordered by the Ministry of Education.

This has been denounced by parents, inhabitants of the village of Vélez, in the rural area of ​​Since, closer to the municipality of Roble, where their children attend classes.

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School transportation

We ask the mayor of El Roble to help us with transportation, because our children arrive tired, they no longer want to do their homework.

Lalys Muelas is the mother of one of those students, who starts her journey on foot every day very early in the company of other children to arrive at the Institution on time, since there is no school transport service that distributes the children from corregimientos. , sidewalks and farms.

“We ask the mayor of El Roble to help us with transportation, because our children arrive tired, they no longer want to do their homework because they arrive with a headache. With a car that makes the journey they are calmer, rested, with encouragement and willingness to comply with the Institution”, he says.

It indicates that the route is double, because there are several kilometers to go and the pampering on the way back.

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“Only that the one on the way back is heavier, because they do it under the inclement sun, which harms the children. The way things are going, they’ll have to withdraw from school. We do not believe that our children can put up with this hustle and bustle, because they will surely get sick, “they indicated.

They were waiting for a response from the directors of the Educational Institution they attend in El Roble and the mayors on duty, to find out if they can count on school transport.

The situation was already registered in the Sincelejito corregimiento, in the rural area of ​​Ayapel (Córdoba), where 300 children do not attend classes but because of the floods.
Mayor Isidro Vergara contracted the services of a river transport to solve this problem.

Schools are in poor condition and do not provide minimum guarantees to students

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in bad shape

Parents and teachers recently made the complaint about the poor state of educational institutions, in the rural area of ​​Sucre (Sucre), where the walls of the Nariño Corregimiento Educational Institution are about to collapse.

In the same way in the Manuela Beltrán Educational Institution, in the Sabanas de Beltrán district, in the jurisdiction of Los Palmitos, where thieves are taking the headquarters to pieces.

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Added to this is the lack of drinking water in different schools in the rural areas of Sincelejo, Toluviejo, San Onofre, Colosó and the indigenous areas of Sampués and San Antonio de Palmito.

Parents and teachers expect the solution to the requests they have made, so that children can access to receive classes in the midst of the highest possible quality.

Francis Xavier Barrios
Special for WEATHER
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30 kilometers of electrical cables have been stolen in the Atlantic - Barranquilla - Colombia

The issue of the theft of electrical networks in the department of Atlantic It is a crime that has been growing and impacting the pockets of users and merchants.

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To date the air-e company reports the theft of no less than 30 kilometers of cable throughout the department, which is equivalent to the distances between Barranquilla and the municipality of Santo Tomas.

The stolen copper and aluminum cables are sold by thieves in junkyards.

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The last case took place in the rural area of ​​Tubará, in the north of the department, where 110 meters of electrical networks were stolen.

But this situation is not unrelated to the capital of the Department where thieves have taken 3,800 meters of cable in the Center sector and its surroundings alone.
Sectors such as Barranquillita, in the vicinity of the Port Corridor, is another area where blackouts are permanently reported due to cable theft.

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The center was full of people and as soon as it got dark, the shoppers began to leave

A recent example, explains the director of Asocentro, Dina Luz Pardo, was on December 24 when, as a result of the theft of cables in the Villanueva neighborhood, the Center lost power at approximately 5 pm, “which was fatal. ”.

Pardo assures that the situation, which did not reach the media, affected the sale of some 2,500 merchants.” The center was full of people and as soon as it got dark, the shoppers started to leave.”

Proposal to curb cable theft

The Air-e company proposed the creation of a cooperation network between users, merchants, Police, Mayor’s Office, investigative agencies and judges.

The intention is to carry out an investigation that will allow us to determine who are the ones who steal, who sell and distribute the copper and aluminum from these networks.

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In addition, the installation of security cameras by the mayor’s office was proposed at critical points, such as track 40Villanueva and Port Corridor.

“It is essential to work with the leaders and the community itself in the sectors where power cables are stolen, therefore within the strategies to be established, it is not only to train them, but also to motivate or encourage them. All of this should be discussed at the work tables that the office is expected to convene soon for the Ssafety and coexistence”, Pardo pointed out.

LEONARDO HERRERA DELGANS
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