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Susana Correa, appointed by President Iván Duque as the new manager for the reconstruction of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina after Hurricane Iota, warned that in the first 10 days they will be working on removing debris and delivering humanitarian aid for affected families.
(You can read: Providencia ceased to exist as it was known)
In dialogue with The W, explained that they have provided temporary shelters and help hundreds of citizens to move to San Andrés, specifically those who have somewhere to go and emphasized that there will be no evacuation from the island of Providencia.
“We do not want to evacuate the island, in Providencia and Santa Catalina there are already shelters, we are putting public services. We want the men and women who may be helping to rebuild the island to stay because we need manpower, “he said on the station.
Correa explained in The W that next week a water treatment and desalination plant will be installed to supply the population with water.
(We recommend you read: Family survived the hurricane locked for more than 24 hours in their bathroom)
Regarding connectivity, he announced that eight satellite phones were activated so that citizens can communicate with their families and report their condition.
“We are in order, today we are delivering aid in kind, food, tents and we are fixing public services. We are going to give priority to supermarkets, stores and hardware stores because there is nothing open today. We want people to be able to have resources if there is where to buy, ”he said.
However, the biggest challenge is to rebuild the island, which was 98% devastated.
(Also: The stark contrasts of San Andrés after the tragedy)
Susana Correa, Director of Social Prosperity
Susana Correa was born in Cali, is an industrial engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, was a senator from 2014 to 2018 for the Democratic Center and was manager of EMCALI EICE ESP between 2008 and 2010. She currently serves as director of the Department of Social Prosperity of the government of Iván Duke.
For its part, the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management reported yesterday that they will be delivered 1,652 food kits and 320 toilet kits, 28 kitchen kits, 6,000 biosecurity kits, 270 mats, 8,976 liters of water, 500 field rations, 360 tents and 6,000 medium lanterns. In addition, demolition work is being carried out on the affected concrete slabs for the recovery of the road infrastructure.
The United States Government donated $ 100,000 to Colombia to help those affected by the hurricane and Chinese Vice Minister Zheng Zeguang announced on Friday the cash donation of $ 500,000 from his government and $ 100,000 through the Red Cross of That country.
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