RESEARCH PROJECT
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND PANDEMIC RESILIENCE
Community-based organizations
The organization is located in the Charco Azul neighborhood and its creation dates back to 2010. This organization brings together different community initiatives that seek to assist the residents of the neighborhood in matters such as security, recreation, food security and promotion of a culture of peace for the resolution peaceful from conflicts.
At present, its leaders are part of the Local Action Board and have achieved representation in the area of ​​the Mayor's Office. The neighborhood has been one of the hardest hit by the quarantines and social isolation policies caused by Covid-19, and strategies are currently being advanced to safeguard the population by distributing food.
The Foundation works to prevent violent youth conflict in the Marroquín 2 neighborhood, Aguablanca District. The organization proposes an exercise of community participation around the creation, production and dissemination of the folkloric tradition of the Colombian Pacific, represented in music, dance and theater. Through the communication process inherent to the proposed exercise, a reflection on the resolution on the peaceful resolution of conflicts and the holding of family meetings aimed at sizing community coexistence in the sector are promoted.
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Son de mi Gente cares for a total of 120 children and adolescents, and it should be noted that the intervened population is part of the activities carried out by the foundation and that the families of the participants have also helped in carrying out cultural activities that strengthen the humanitarian fabric. This is a prevention proposal that has had different antecedents dating back to 2005 and that have been led by community agents in the sector who have managed resources to get in touch with institutions such as the Mayor's Office of Santiago de Cali, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, and companies with an organizational policy sensitive to the needs of vulnerable groups in the Aguablanca District.
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The founders of the organization are Jhon Murillo and Nancy Torres.
It is an organization that seeks the promotion and defense of Human Rights in vulnerable contexts of commune 15 of the Aguablanca District. It was created in 2006 as a result of an alliance between social service professionals and administration areas related to the support of those most in need.
They are currently developing therapeutic and pedagogical intervention processes aimed at children, young people and families, and emphasize their proposals in reducing vulnerability, as well as in the prevention of abandonment.
