By Fernando Melo Farrera | Project Leader
We are happy because with the project we have been able to take important steps to strengthen our capacities to face future natural phenomena that may occur in our community.
First we begin by developing a risk map, as well as identifying the main natural phenomena that have affected life in the community since we have knowledge and with the support of grandmothers and grandparents, we also work a calendar to identify in which seasons they occur more frequent and how they affect our lives.
Subsequently, we saw the need to raise in the community assembly the urgency of appointing a municipal civil protection direction in order to manage with the state and federal government support to conduct geological studies of our territory to try to prevent affectations such as landslides hillsides, like the one that happened in 2018 with heavy rains, a year after the strong earthquake that affected many communities like ours.
With the appointment of the civil protection department at the municipal level, we are working on the development of a civil protection program to manage resources for risk prevention and that we are pleased to share with you today.
In addition to these advances where we have the Civil Protection Program to prevent disasters, soil conservation practices were carried out to prevent landslides.
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