The entrepreneurship that helps women overcome problems in Chocó - Other Cities - Colombia

Taking young women out of the armed conflict in the Pacific region is not an easy task. This is an area of ​​the country where opportunities for study and personal development for young people are scarce and where talent is exploited by illegal actors.

For this reason, the work of Cruz Helena Valencia Moreno in the city of Quibdó makes her efforts to build peace even more meritorious, because despite so much difficulty has managed to build a path to overcome obstacles not only for her, but for a group of girls and adolescents from her region.

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For her, the construction of peace must go from speeches to deeds in order for it to become a reality. They are perhaps her great optimism and, as she herself says “her perrenque of her” of her, what has led her to empower herself and seek a better future for “her girls of her” of her.

With her wide smile, she has managed to conquer many community goals of which she is proud and her pupils even more so.

Why robotics?

This young woman, who is about to finish her law degree, approached the recently created Robotics School in her city, Quibdó, three years ago. She there she realized that girls’ participation was minimal and, in the cases in which it did occur, it was not prolonged and did not meet goals.

When she inquired about the reasons, she learned that something more worrying was added to the stigma of women against science and technology: the high rates of violence that took place against young people in the region.

With her project she seeks to end the stigma that girls and women should not do science.

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Courtesy Cruz Helena Valencia Moreno

“I trust in my territory and in its women, in the power of the Pacific, the potential of the Chocoanas, their brawl that allows them to overcome difficulties. Women with empowerment through science, technology, resorting to conflict resolution and overcoming difficulties in other ways from the development of skills and abilities in women”.

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And that’s when he decided to rely on the skills he got from robotics school and make it a tool to help.

“The department of Chocó has many territorial, social, cultural and historical stigmas and it has been very difficult to face that society that places limits and geographical, social and economic barriers. I never imagined that robotics school would provide those tools, but I didn’t think either. go further and reach the point of transforming my territory from science and technology”, recognized Cruz Helena.

Teaching science and technology and getting inspirational to target girls was a great building lesson in the region.

During school: one of the groups of girls who went through their Robotics School program.

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Courtesy Cruz Helena Valencia Moreno

“The robotics program made it possible to defeat that stigma that women are not good for science and technology. Gender stigmas that limited their intellectual and economic capacities”.

There are already 300 women who have approached innovation and, with science and technology, have created solutions to overcome problems in their communities throughout the Pacific.

There are already 300 women who have approached innovation and, with science and technology, have created solutions to overcome problems in their communities

“In each version of Innovation Girl it has been confirmed that women are the future of Colombia, but they also inspire a new generation of women in the territory and that is my purpose in life. I feel very proud of that. My role has been the empowerment of womenr in science and technology”, highlights Helena.

Inspire

For this reason, she is certain that programs like Innovation Girl will last for a long time and is sure that it will transcend Chocó, which is where it takes place in each edition.

This laboratory of entrepreneurship through science and technology will surely reach the entire country and Latin America.

For now, he will go, in addition to his department, to Cauca and Nariño. The only obstacle is overcoming the stigmas women facepeople of color and the inhabitants of the abandoned territories.

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“The gender issue has a very great historical burden. The fight has been hard to have territorial and cultural rights. Therefore, science and technology will make it possible to close these social gaps. With this we bet on obtaining opportunities and building peace”, says Cruz Helena with certainty, for whom spaces like Innovation Girl can lead to landing opportunities for women entrepreneurs who are just looking for an opportunity, for someone to listen to them.

Cruz Helena highlights the name of the country in all its international participations.

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Courtesy Cruz Helena Valencia Moreno

“For every 10 ventures there are 7 led by women and I have a lot of faith in the push of them for whom nothing has been great. Many people who bet on their power make me think that a more equitable country is closer.”

That is why, with her convincing smile, she insists on that message to the girls and young women of the country. Whenever she can, she gives words of motivation: “There is nothing that is too big for us, nothing that cannot be fulfilled. Dreams are to be fulfilled science and technology will help make life much easier and close the social problems in our territories. There will always be a space for us in science and technology”.

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Entrepreneurship Laboratory

Innovation Girls 5.0 is an Entrepreneurship Laboratory that seeks to enhance the technology skills and entrepreneurial spirit of the participants in the areas of tourism, technology, transformation and use of natural resources.

In addition, the program seeks to promote the development of solutions to the problems of local environments and the ability to generate their own income for those who participate.

This, within the framework of an alternative for the economic empowerment of women in the Pacific.

exemplary woman

There are many expectations that this young leader has at this time, who seeks to continue working for the communities of Chocó. In the last year she graduated as a lawyer and continues to inspire young people of African descent through talks throughout the country in which she asks them to take advantage of their surroundings to transform their lives, those of their friends and neighbors, as well as achieve new opportunities. .

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She was the Afro-Colombian of the Year in the youth category in 2021, one of the few Colombians to win the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program and, recently, was chosen as the Cafam Chocó Woman, something that has high expectations for her, since she would see it as recognition of the work of young women in her region.

The young leader won the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program in 2021.

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Courtesy Cruz Helena Valencia Moreno

creation labs

-16-year-old women from the Pacific have enrolled in the program to strengthen their entrepreneurship.

-The laboratory helps them transform their plan into a business, train themselves and take their ideas to the next level.

-So far, more than 300 girls and young people have created science and technology solutions for their territories.

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-Kelly Córdoba and Yorleidy Parra are the girls from the program who participated in the workshop experience at NASA in August.

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A young Venezuelan woman is threatened for denouncing environmental problems - Other Cities - Colombia

For having denounced an environmental crisis registered in a neighborhood of the city of Riohacha, which has been affecting the inhabitants for several years, a Venezuelan migrant received death threats.

María Pineda, who has been living in the El Manantial neighborhood for five years, through a video published on her social networks denounced on September 5 an environmental problem.

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Rainwater stagnation

which is generated by the rainwater stagnation on Carrera 27 with Calle 15, forming an immense lagoon that affects mobility, preventing free vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Two days after the complaint, Mayor José Ramiro Bermúdez and the secretary of works visited this sector to review this situation and announced the completion of a project that is in the pre-contractual stage.

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Five months later, and given that the waters changed color, becoming an intense green, ‘Chan chan’, as the victim is known, decided to make another video on February 5 recalling the situation and the visit by the authorities, assuring that the cases of dengue increased and the issue remained the same.

She immediately received a text message “Chan, chan, stop making videos to stir up the hornet’s nest here in Riohacha Veneca… solve your country, go with your girlfriend, something could happen to you, take care of yourself in the motico.”

They offered money for an attempt on his life.

I have been creating the same social content for five years about what is wrong in Riohacha and how we can improve. But this year that we are precisely in politics was that this affected someone

Through his Facebook account, he made the threat public “Who is it that one holds responsible when they threaten him? I cannot believe that because she is a veneca, that Riohacha hurts, she has to receive these types of threats.”

What he did not imagine was that someone close to him warned him to be careful, already in another sector of the city, in the Dividivi neighborhood, they were offering a good sum of money for an attempt on his life, “rumors from the neighborhood 10 bars for shooting you”, points to the message.

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This Thursday he will file the complaints with the competent authorities, noting that he does not know who is behind these threats.

“I have been creating the same social content for five years about what is wrong in Riohacha and how we can improve. But this year that we are precisely in politics was that this affected someone, ”he maintains.

Mayor rejects threats

We had closed the budget, we did not have the powers of the council to be able to contract this type of works and we are ready to comply with the legal procedures and contract complementary works…

Regarding the threats, Mayor José Ramiro Bermúdez assured that “we reject any act of violence and threat against the life of Mrs. María Pineda.”

He explained that the contract was awarded for 150 million pesos, but on the other hand there is a problem with a channel that must be cleaned and requires sedimentation work in about three blocks, so they decided to do a single job, so as not to move the problem to another sector.

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“We had just closed the budget, we did not have the powers of the council to be able to contract this type of works and we are ready to comply with the legal procedures and contract the complementary works in the other sector, that is why we have not been able to move forward,” said the president.

Bermúdez assures that in approximately one month the issue of hiring could be resolved to start the execution of these works, if the legal terms allow it.

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They ordered him to change it: Carmen Villalobos had problems in her career for being called Yorley

Yorley del Carmen Villalobos is the real name of the villain of ‘Coffee with the aroma of a woman’. The actress assured that her family and lifelong friends call her ‘Yorly’, but when she entered the entertainment world they told her that she had to change it.

“Everyone in my house calls me Yorly. When I started working I was Yorley Villalobos, but people never learned it, they told me: ‘Hello Yerley, hello Yurley,’” he explained.

It was then that director Mario Rivero told him that the best thing he could do was change his name to something easier to remember. “He told me: ‘Don’t you have another name? I feel that people have a hard time’ and I told him ‘Carmen’ and he replied: ‘That’s it! Carmen Villalobos’”, and presto, a star was born.

What happened with Carmen Villalobos shows how people with names that are not common have to deal with the fact that people mispronounce them or find it too difficult to learn them.

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The first name of Carmen Villalobos did not prevent her from succeeding

On the other hand, the actress made the jump to presenter and currently directs a program about women entrepreneurs. Her last role in soap operas was as ‘Lucía’, the antagonist in ‘Café con aroma de mujer’.

“Do you know what I reconfirmed with Lucia? That if we don’t value ourselves and don’t love ourselves, we will end up choosing people who won’t value us either. There is nothing sadder than losing your dignity to make someone else like you. That never ”, she affirmed, when saying goodbye to her character.

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Currently, ‘Café con aroma de mujer’ remains in the top 10 of Netflix in Latin America as one of the most viewed fictions.

But in her personal life, the actress has had to go through some challenges, such as overcoming COVID-19. She stated on her social networks that she had very strong symptoms, but that she finally managed to recover.

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Coomeva: affiliates ask that health problems not continue with new EPS - Cali - Colombia

In a queue since dawn, in the south of Cali, Rodrigo Caicedo waited for a way out of the drama of his wife, who suffers from a progressive brain disorder. For the last year, she has had a hospital at home, but now the couple suffers from uncertainty.

Two weeks ago, when Coomeva EPS came to an end, Caicedo began looking for someone to tell him how to do so that he would not be removed from the care program and would have a nurse, a request that was pending. “I am going to ask that they not unprotect me,” says Caicedo, noting that the procedures are complicated.

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It is one of the stories that have been lived by the liquidation of the EPS, adopted by the Superintendence of Health pointing out “the impossibility of correcting the critical financial situation in which it finds itself and as protection of the life and health of its 1.2 million affiliates in 24 departments of the country.”

Although the Ministry maintains that users were transferred to 14 entities, the blow is hard in Valle del Cauca, where there were 400,000 members; of them, 180,000 are in Cali. In the same week, Supersalud intervened in Emssanar EPS, which had 967,946 members in Valle del Cauca.

If they don’t give me the medicine every day, they can give me a seizure

The Secretary of Health of the Valley, María Cristina Lesmes, says that it is a blow to the public network in the department. Both entities, with more than 3 million users in the country, concentrate a large part of their affiliates in the southwest. Users of the liquidated EPS Coomeva seek guidance at the offices of the Health Secretariats of the Valle del Cauca capital and the department.

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That is the case of Gloria Guanene, 61 years old. The woman from Cali aspires not to have to go to more guardianships, as she has been doing for four years, nor to be begging every month for therapies, after a tumor was detected on the right side of her brain. Her abnormal mass pressed against his frontal and temporal lobes.

This patient says that four years ago they removed the tumor from her head, extracting a part of her brain. But she was left with convulsive syndrome. She claims that she has since come on her fight to continue to pay attention. “If they don’t give me the medicine every day, they can give me a seizure”, he says from a wheelchair, as he lost the mobility of his right leg and arm.

Now his new struggle has been to be assigned an appointment at the new EPS that was assigned to him on the website of the Ministry of Health and thus continue with his treatment. “We don’t know whether to be happy with the change or to worry,” says Ximena Marín, whose father, Guillermo Marín, has esophageal cancer. And her father is confined in a clinic in the south of Cali. “In Coomeva they were processing the hospital program at home, but now, with this change, we don’t know what will happen to it.”

It is a very serious situation that additionally affects a network of service providers that have lived from this entity, for 26 years, serving its population.

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The Secretary of Health of Cali, Miyerlandi Torres, explains that in the case of patients with high-cost illnesses, each EPS to which the affiliates who came with Coomeva EPS are being assigned must guarantee that the health-providing institutions (IPS), such as clinics and hospitals, and who were already treating them, do not interrupt care. She points out that this was the commitment of these entities.

It notes that those who had filed guardianship actions, when they were affiliated with Coomeva EPS, must go to the offices of the assigned insurance entities or EPS so that these bodies can initiate the respective procedures and thus provide the required attention in the IPS.

According to the Secretary of Health of the Valley, the loss of Coomeva EPS “is a very serious situation that additionally affects a network of service providers who have lived from this entity, for 26 years, attending to its population”. And he adds that there is a social and economic impact, because 7,900 workers are laid off.

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Fabio Restrepo passed away due to problems related to COVID-19

After a long fight against COVID-19, actor Fabio Restrepo died on Sunday morning in Medellín, Colombia, according to local media reports.

The remembered interpreter had been hospitalized in the company of his son, who died days ago, due to complications related to COVID-19.

Initially, Fabio Restrepo arrived at the medical center due to low blood sugar, and shortly after he was diagnosed with coronavirus, so he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

Despite the fact that a recent photograph had announced a slight improvement in Restrepo, apparently he would have had a relapse that caused his unfortunate death.

Fabio Restrepo accidentally entered the world of entertainment after being discovered by film director Víctor Gaviria, who invited him to star in the movie ‘Sumas y subtas’.

Colombian actor Fabio Restrepo passed away

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His performance was praised by Colombians and Restrepo soon appeared in successful television productions. such as ‘Rosario scissors’, ‘Escobar: the patron of evil’, ‘Lady, the seller of roses’ and ‘Anonymous’ (2015).

In the cinema he also stood out in important performances. Productions such as ‘Satanás’, ‘García’, ‘Edificio Royal’ and ‘Millionaire Talent’, released in 2017, are part of his most remembered works.

His villainous performances always received praise from viewers in Colombia; who regret the actor’s departure in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Without fear of being wrong, Fabio Restrepo’s role in ‘Sumas y subtas’ (2004) is one of the best I have seen in Colombian cinema; Goodbye to a great Colombian actor. Eternal gratitude, ”an admirer of his work commented on networks.

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