By Fundacion Servivienda | Fundacion Servivienda
¡Rural Community Center for Peace in Colombia!
Thanks to all of you, the community of Vallecito will soon have its own multicultural center!!!
Less than 40 years of SERVIVIENDA Foundation has been contributing to the construction of suitable habitat in the country, the International Forum "Rethinking suitable habitat in areas of peace" was held. Space that allowed the knowledge and experience to the dialogues of knowledge, ideas and proposals between national and international search for answers to the needs of the people in the new stage of development and coexistence actors.
The event was attended by several leaders of the three regional SERVIVIENDA where the Foundation has been conducting its interventions and impacts. The forum was held under the participatory construction in different workshops, where he was representing the village of Vallecito in San Pablo, Bolívar, Alfredo Aguilar and Agustin Diaz two tireless leaders who have worked closely SERVIVIENDA in active participation in collective actions have strengthened the reconstruction of the social fabric.
PARTICIPATION IN THE FORUM 2 SERVIVIENDA
RETHINKING THE RIGHT HABITAT IN TERRITORIES OF PEACE
These two great leaders made their statements in one of the workshops in the morning the day corresponding to the theme "The territorial dimension of Post Conflict in Colombia. Discussions on the Territorial Planning Transitional". Where they could present their experiences, expectations and concerns that are occurring in the territory, against the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC; as well as thanking the SERVIVIENDA Foundation for interventions around the Habitat, which have led to the actions undertaken since 2012 they have improved quantitatively and qualitatively the lives of all the inhabitants of the village center cottage road to peace - Pilot Vallecito, San Pablo, Bolívar.
Some words of Alfredo Aguilar was aimed at his experiences as a leader, and the position has been tending him and the community to the problems afflicting the community in which express, "We are a forgotten by the central government and regional authorities government in the area where we are, but we know that we can only change things that affect us if we are united. Because if we organize ourselves we can generate greater positive impact in our community "(Alfredo Aguilar, 2015)
In the name of Alfredo Aguilar, Agustin Diaz, The SERVIVIENDA Foundation and all people who participated in the International Forum "Rethinking suitable habitat in areas of peace," we thank our donors for allowing us not only to build the Community Multicultural Center but also spread intervention model "rural population centers to peace" for their replication in other vulnerable for post-conflict territories in Colombia.
THANK YOU!
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