The children of the rural area of Ayapel (Córdoba), in the villages belonging to the corregimiento of Sincelejito, have not attended face-to-face classes in the reactivation for two weeks, because they do not have the way to travel to the Educational Institutions.
There are 300 children from the villages of El Cuchillo, Barandilla, Los Negritos and Barcelona, who after two years looked forward to being in the classrooms receiving education and now that wish has not been fulfilled.
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Luz Nerys Gómez is a leader of the region, president of the Community Action Board of Sincelejito, she raised her voice to denounce what is happening with the children and the fact that they cannot attend classes.
Difficulty getting around
“Two weeks ago classes began, the educators arrived after moving from Ayapel in ‘Johnson’, but the paths are far from the corregimiento and the Children have to get to school by water, because the flood affected us, leaving the channel flooded.”
“The embankments were very deteriorated, the pipes have enough water and the children have to cross them to attend the Institution. They are children from four quite distant villages, who have to get to the corregimiento,” said the social leader.
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The seriousness of the situation, he says, is that they have no way of transporting themselves from those towns to the head of the corregimiento.
The cost of living multiplies in this region
We are requesting that the Mayor’s Office of Ayapel hire the ‘Johnsons’, deliver canoes, a transport for the children, it’s already been 15 days that the children have missed classes…
“Gasoline is very expensive, each parent has to place a fee on a particular ‘Johnson’ so that he can transport them to Sincelejito and they also have to pay for the service,” he explained.
“We are requesting that the Mayor’s Office of Ayapel hire the ‘Johnsons’, deliver canoes, a transport for the children, because time is advancing very quickly and it is already 15 days that the children have missed classes, after having two years of recess , which means that the same problem continues”, he indicated.
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He explained that they understood the current situation that the municipalities are going through, but that they should not have waited for the day to come and then come in to solve the problem of transportation for the transfer of children to schools.
River transport
Since November we haven’t seen a doctor in this area, we have to go to Ayapel, make an appointment, they do tests and the results are delivered within 8 days…
The mayor of Ayapel, Isidro Vergara, put himself at the forefront of the situation faced by the children, to carry out the contracting procedures to provide a school river transport.
“We already have on the page the contractual process through which we are going to guarantee river school transportation to all children in the low rural area. The theme has been that for this season all our children would be arriving at schools by land, but this is an exceptional case due to the issue of the Cauca River”, he said.
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I point out that the community in the rural areas of the municipality can rest easy, because their arrival at the student centers is guaranteed, not only in Sincelejito, but also in all sectors of Ayapel.
They ask for closure of the rupture in cat face
The children received the first dose in November and have not returned for the second dose. We call on the authorities to send us the vaccines
The social leader also referred to the situation that children face with the placement of vaccines against covid19.
“The children received the first dose in November and they have not returned to apply the second dose. We call on the authorities to coordinate with the Ministry of Health and send us the vaccines, ”she noted.
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In the same way, he asked for the permanent presence of doctors in this area of the municipality, because the children are sick with fever, headache and cough.
“Since November we haven’t seen a doctor in this area. We hope they come back, because we have to go to Ayapel, make an appointment, they do the exams and the results are delivered within 8 days. The situation is critical,” he stated.
He asked for the solution to the closing of the break in cat face, Otherwise, the situation will continue the same in the region, since Ayapel receives head-on the currents of the Cauca River.
Francis Xavier Barrios
Special for WEATHER
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