About 33 families in vulnerable conditions benefited from the development of a support activity, in which different institutions participated with the sole objective of helping the communities that need it most.
With the aim of continuing to work for the wellbeing of the displaced community of La Amargura village in the municipality of Cáceres, Antioquia, the National Army, the National Navy and the Colombian Air Force, in coordination with territorial institutions, carried out an activity to support development.
The National Army in coordination with the Isabel La Católica Hospital and thanks to the donation of the Sommer Foundation, managed to distribute 260 boxes of painkillers, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, which reached the island of La Amargura, thanks to the work conducted by the Air Combat Command No.5 of the Air Force, the Joint Task Force Aquiles and Navy Infantry River Battalion No.17 of the Navy.
The Proesa Animal Foundation in the same way was ate the site and provided care to the canines and felines of the village through medical examinations, deworming and the distribution of vitamins. In the same way, with the support of the soldiers of the Comprehensive Action and Development Support Battalion No.7 and the Airborne Infantry Battalion No.31 Rifles, more than 90 kilos of animals’ food were distributed to the animals that have been abandoned on the island.
For its part, the program Faith in Colombia of the Seventh Division of the National Army, with the purpose of promoting the permanence of children in school and the good habit of reading, distributed more than 200 books and encyclopedias that will serve the children and youth of the School Getsemani, as a tool of consultation for the subjects of social issues, religion, math, Spanish, physics, and chemistry. These copies were possible to collect thanks to the donation of books that was conducted in recent days in the city of Medellin.
This development Support Activity is part of the various activities that the National Army, in coordination with different institutions, has carried out on the island of La Amargura and in which the peasant and Indigenous community has been benefited with humanitarian aid, health activities, entertainment and Recreation.
Source: press-Comprehensive Action and Development Support Command-CAAID
