This activity benefited 40 families who were hit by the natural disaster that devastated 15 neighborhoods of Mocoa, Putumayo, in 2017.
The Sixth Division of the National Army with the Combat Support and Services Battalion No.27 Simona De La Luz Duque de Alzate, of the Twenty-Seventh Jungle Brigade, The Comprehensive Action and Development Support Battalion No.6 and the program Fe en Colombia in execution of Operation San Roque, distributed food baskets to 37 families of the Kamentsá Biya Indigenous Cabildo of Mocoa, Putumayo.
This humanitarian aid seeks to mitigate the basic needs of this community that the night of March 31, 2017, was hit by the overflow of the Rivers Mocoa, Mulato and Sangoyaco, and also who in 2020 due to the restrictions decreed to contain COVID-19, have reduced their income since they derive their livelihood from street sales and informal jobs.
The products with which these food baskets were made were donated by Social Prosperity program, after an alliance with the Twenty-Seventh Jungle Brigade and the program Fe en Colombia. For its part, The Combat Support and Services Battalion No.27 Simona De La Luz Duque de Alzate and the Comprehensive Action and Development Support Battalion No.6 were responsible for the logistics and packaging of the elements.
“We are very grateful to the National Army and Faith in Colombia that have always taken us into account and today with that help, the families were very happy, very grateful for that effort,” said Mrs Luz Navy Agreda, Governor of the Cabildo Kamentsá Biya.
Thanks to the institutional coordination and the Union of effort, the Network Supergiros joined the activity with the donation of candies for the boys and girls of the Cabildo.
This operation is part of a process carried out by the National Army with the aim of continuing to contribute to the development and reconstruction of social fabric; because it is important to remember that in 2019, this community received two computers donated by the National Federation of merchants and, through a Solidarity Campaign, kitchen utensils.
Source: press-Comprehensive Action and Development Support Command
