Barranquilla begins resettlement program - Barranquilla - Colombia

A program that focused on improving the social conditions of the inhabitants of informal settlements began the District Mayor’s Office of Barranquilla.

The initiative known as resettlement covers 11 areas of the city, where District officials are “extending the district offer of services to dignify families, regardless of whether they are from Barranquilla, from other regions of the country or foreigners,” announced Mayor Jaime Pumarejo.

Communities settled in Las Flores, Villa Caracas, La Loma, Juan Mina, Brisas del Río, Blessing of God, Villanueva, El Pueblo, El Rubí, El Edén and the Ahuyama spout are the beneficiaries, because in them the Government has found a complex social panorama.

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Extreme poverty, crime and in some cases illegal land dealers. Among those affected, they are also identified natives of different ethnicities.

The process steps

We are coming to change their reality, so that they have a stable roof or their own, study opportunities, health care, markets for their businesses and security.

Edubar officials enter the zones to develop the characterization plan. Through this, the following are established: legal situation, the needs of the community, health aspects, the condition of the property or the land on which it is built, economic activities, in other aspects.

“We are coming to change their reality, so that they have a stable roof or their own, study opportunities, health care, markets for their enterprises and security”, because “we have said that” Barranquilla is a land of opportunities in which we all fit. ”, added Mayor Pumarejo.

The offer delivered by the District includes options such as temporary leases, replacement housing, transportation aid, transfer of the place of residence, payment of economic activities or payment of construction, among others, according to each situation.

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Similarly, it is taken into account that not all members wish to return to their places of origin, the process offers the possibility of accompanying them and advising them on the legalization of their stay in the city.

“Most of these people live in half-built houses, with board walls and a zinc roof, without formal public services or paved streets. The majority live in hydric zones that, in addition, could offer additional risks for them”, expressed a spokesman.

Added to this is that because they live next to bodies of water that do not have optimal health conditions, they are more prone to various types of diseases.

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Magdalena: Carlos Caicedo denounces sabotage in the PAE program - Other Cities - Colombia

The Ocad Caribe denied the Government of Magdalena the right to carry out the School Meal Plan (PAE) 2022.

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At the meeting, he established that the Administrative and Planning Region (RAP) assume that responsibility.

In no case is the ICBF alluded to, as Ocad did last December, or the RAPs, as they do now illegally.

Said determination generated discomfort in the governor of Magdalena, Carlos Caicedo, who attacked the rulers who did not agree that the department would be in charge of distributing the food doses in the schools of the municipalities.

According to Caicedo, the governors of Sucre, Córdoba and Bolívar, in collusion with the mayor of the municipality of Sampués (Sucre), once again committed the crime of prevarication.

To support his statement, he specified that “the Colombian regulatory framework only admits departments, municipalities and districts as responsible for guaranteeing school meals.”

in what corresponds to budgetsaid that the law indicates that the execution of school feeding resources are in charge of the Nation and the territorial entities certified in education.

“That is to say, in no case is the ICBF alluded to, as Ocad did last December, or the RAPs, as they do now illegally,” noted the Governor of Magdalena.

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The rejection of the ICBF

The president recalled that the December 6, 2021 the governors, meeting in the Ocad Caribbean region, approved that the ICBF be the executing entity of the PAE for the Magdalena.

This decision, he added, because it was contrary to law, was rejected by the general director of the ICBF, who, like the Ministry of Finance and the Government of Magdalena, argued that it had neither the legal powers nor the competence to assume the execution of the PAE. .

It is a decision that expresses the abuse of the dominant position of the governor of Córdoba and the mayor of Sampués

The governor of Magdalena, Carlos Caicedo, expressed his rejection of the new decision arguing that “it is a decision that expresses the abuse of the dominant position of the governor of Córdoba and the mayor of Sampués”.

He also announced that he will file a criminal complaint and a disciplinary complaint against the governors of Sucre and Córdoba and the mayor of Sampués, “since with their willful conduct they have again incurred the crime of prevarication by action.”

“It is unacceptable that for political reasons the children of the department of Magdalena, the fourth poorest in the country, are denied their right to school meals,” Caicedo pointed out.

Roger Urieles
For THE WEATHER Santa Marta
@rogeruv

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Atlántico: Launch of the Banco de la Gente program - Barranquilla - Colombia

As a strategy that “frees” the Atlantic people from the ‘daily payment’ and the high interest rates. This is how the ‘People’s Bank‘, a program of social transformation in the department.

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The initiative, led by the Government and Finsocial, seeks to promote financial education, savings and impact the lives of 4,500 Atlanteans, changing the financial reality of entrepreneurs, such as Yuris Sarabia.

For one, who lives from day to day, it is very difficult to be able to make plans for the future and even more so if you have to go to lenders

She is fish seller for 8 years and said he has great expectations with Banco de la Gente, because he will be able to make his dream come true of having the economic resources to be able to set up his own store and improve his income.

“For one, who lives from day to day, it is very difficult to be able to make plans for the future and even more so if you have to go to lenders who keep all your earnings. I believe that, with this Bank that came to help us, we have a new possibility that will ease our pockets,” said the 33-year-old woman.

Between 400 thousand and one million pesos

Sarabia and thousands of Atlantic entrepreneurs now dream of their economic freedom and to make their businesses prosper, through the access to collaborative credits between 400 thousand and one million pesos, provided by the program, as explained by Governor Elsa Noguera.

“In the campaign, when we toured the municipalities, we saw that there was great anguish over the ‘pagadiario’. No business in the world with credit at a rate of 20 percent per month can prosper, because the profits are taken by the financing,” said the president.

As she added, this motivated her to design a strategy to benefit entrepreneurs who have a business idea, but have not been able to develop it as it requires high financing, and also the anguish of debts that worries families.

The program allows them “to go from 20 percent monthly financing to less than 1 percent. In addition, they will be able to receive academic training in topics that will help them to do well with their businesses”, explained Noguera.

a savings account

It is the opportunity to socially, commercially and financially educate our entrepreneurs

Another component of the program is savings, because, as he indicated, a part of what they had to pay in interest to the daily payer will be deposited in a savings account and, after three months, when the credit ends, they will have that available resource.

Meanwhile, Finsocial pointed out that the participants will form ‘Circles of Prosperity‘, groups of between 15 and 20 people, neighbors and acquaintances who work or live nearby. For four weeks, the groups will be trained in entrepreneurship, leadership, teamwork and business development.

After acquiring the certificate of the first module of the program, they will be able to access the first reimbursable economic incentive. The groups will continue to have support for the next 12 weeks to continue with the return of the incentives and the training process of the entrepreneurs.

For the CEO of Finsocial, Santiago Botero, the Banco de la Gente is a project that seeks for entrepreneurs to receive resources through interest rates very economical to promote their ventures through a collaborative model.

“It is the opportunity to educate our entrepreneurs socially, commercially and financially. These people today are the engine of the economic reactivation of our country”, concluded Botero.

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How to access the collaborative incentive?

1. Entering the website www.bancodelagente.co and filling in the required information. Those interested will be contacted by a counselor.
2. In person, at the Banco de la Gente office, on the first floor of the Government of Atlántico.

Requirements to participate

1. Be a Colombian citizen, be between 18 and 75 years of age and belong to strata 1,2 and 3.
2. Present a photocopy of the identity card and public receipt of your place of residence.
3. Have a formal or informal business running.
4. Form a ‘Circle of Prosperity’ (groups of between 15 and 20 entrepreneurs).

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Barranquilla: housing improvement program subsidies - Barranquilla - Colombia

Andry Ortega Polo was satisfied and honored to be one of the first seven beneficiaries of the program ‘Dignified House, Dignified Life‘ from the La Chinita neighborhood, in Barranquilla, who have started 2022 with housing improvement subsidies, for representing a longing that their mother had in life.

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“This is a very big achievement for me, because things have happened and I know that it will benefit my family a lot, especially in the presentation of the home,” said Ortega, full of nostalgia, a beneficiary of the home improvement subsidy. living place.

In a field visit, the District Planning Secretary, Juan Manuel Alvarado, and the head of the Habitat Office, Daniel Navarro D’Anetra, put The first rock to a group of seven households that were assigned the benefits.

The ‘Dignified House, Dignified Life’ program, of the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory, consists of a series of interventions that are adapted to the particular needs of each household to improve the conditions of their housing.

More program details

In this sense, the head of the Habitat Office stated that the implementation of this program is achieved thanks to co-financing by the District and the national government, “and 325 improvements will be made in the La Chinita and La Luz neighborhoods.” housing that will be of great benefit to these inhabitants”.

He also pointed out that “this program is very strong in the city, because not only does the Planning Secretariat work in alliance with the Ministry of Housing, but also from the District, with its own resources through the Public Works Secretariat.”

This is how, as he added, it reaches many more neighborhoods in the capital of Atlántico, where they need the benefits that the breeding program of housing.

Aldemar Castro is another of the beneficiaries of the program. He expresses his gratitude, because at first he had doubts about the registration process in the call, but with the accompaniment of the authorities he was able to clear his concerns.

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The story of a beneficiary

“My mother is the founder of the neighborhood (La Chinita) when we swallowed ashes and this was an invasion, where we lived in deplorable conditions. And now with this pandemic, the situation has become complicated again due to unemployment and lack of opportunities,” the man recalled.

But nevertheless, Aldemar Castro He added that, with the arrival of the benefits of the project, they feel grateful “for this blessing from God.”

Just like these, there are a large number of stories of Barranquilla families that, although they own their properties, have economic limitations to improve the infrastructure conditions in which they live.

The District Secretary of Planning weighed the support of the national government in the face of the management that has been carried out for a year before the Ministry of Housing and that today is reflected in the materialization of dreams.

“For us it will be very important from the Barranquilla Mayor’s Office because what we want is to make Barranquilla a City of Owners, and also for people to live in decent housing, and we are achieving this with all these programs financed with national resources. and their own”, concluded the District Planning Secretary, Juan Manuel Alvarado.

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Alhurra TV focuses on Sudan with new program – USAGM

Alhurra TV focuses on Sudan with new program

December 22, 2021

Springfield, VA — Starting on Saturday, Dec. 25^th, Alhurra Television will launch Between Two Niles, a new show that highlights the latest news from Sudan. The program will delve into discussions and analysis of the political, economic, security, and social implications of the most prominent news events that occur each week, by interviewing leading politicians, activists, and journalists to share their perspectives and insights. The weekly program will also explore international reaction, including the American stance on issues regarding Sudan including the transition to democracy and the role of the military.

“Sudan has witnessed significant upheaval recently and there is a pressing need for the independent and balanced analysis that we will provide on Between Two Niles,” stated MBN Acting President Hassan Shwiki. MBN manages and oversees Alhurra Television. “As an unbiased pan-Arab network, we are able to host and deliver these important discussions to the Sudanese people, as well as the rest of the Arab world.”

In addition to hosting policy-makers and influencers, Between Two Niles will also incorporate the voices of Sudanese citizens, by sharing their opinions and answering their questions. Between Two Niles will air Saturday evenings at 10 p.m. (Khartoum time).

About MBN

The Middle East Broadcasting Networks is a non-profit corporation is financed by the U.S. Government through a grant from USAGM. MBN operates Alhurra Television, an Arabic-language television network that broadcasts to 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa via satellite, as well as Alhurra-Iraq Television. MBN also operates Sawa, radio and its two dedicated streams, one to Iraq and the other to the Levant. It is available via FM throughout these two areas and provides more than 15 hours of news and information daily on each stream.