Queen Letizia will as soon as once more placed on the purple vest of the Spanish Cooperation throughout her go to to Colombia this week, which is able to embody, amongst different issues, a go to to a water and sanitation undertaking in Cartagena de Indias and a espresso cooperative of ex-guerrillas in Cali.
As on earlier events, the queen will journey accompanied by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Pilar Cancela, and throughout the first stage in Cartagena de Indias, she may also be accompanied on a part of the agenda by the Colombian first girl, Verónica Alcocer, whom she had the chance to to know a month in the past throughout the state go to made by President Gustavo Petro to Spain.
Colombia is a precedence nation for Spanish Cooperation, current in it for 3 many years. The actions and initiatives are structured round two important axes, that of the gender perspective, with a watch on selling the empowerment of girls and combating gender violence, and the attitude of peace, accompanying the Colombian Government on this course of, diplomatic sources have defined.
During her go to, the Queen may have the chance to be taught first-hand concerning the work that’s being carried out each by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and thru the decentralized cooperation of autonomous communities and native entities and of the Spanish NGOs and trade impressions with a few of the beneficiaries of the continuing initiatives.
Water undertaking in Cartagena
Doña Letizia will arrive in Cartagena de Indias late on Monday however the official agenda is not going to begin till Tuesday. That day, along with having lunch with the primary girl and assembly with employees from the Spanish Cooperation and with cooperators current in Colombia, she plans to go to two initiatives.
The first of those would be the undertaking carried out within the Villahermosa neighborhood and financed by the Water and Sanitation Cooperation Fund. This initiative has improved entry to consuming water for some 165,000 folks on this neighborhood and nearly 6,500 can now get pleasure from their proper to sanitation due to the set up of a sewage system.
Doña Letizia, who will likely be accompanied by the primary girl, may have the chance to go to a few of the houses that now have consuming water in addition to a neighborhood college and discuss with a few of its residents.
On the opposite hand, the queen and the primary girl will go to the Workshop School, created with the help of the Spanish Cooperation in 1992 however which now relies upon solely on the Colombian State. Here, younger folks liable to exclusion obtain coaching in conventional trades associated to cultural heritage, corresponding to restoration.
Together, they may also go to the Baluarte de Santa Catalina, one of many emblematic monuments of this Caribbean metropolis and whose restoration has concerned exactly younger folks educated on the Workshop School.
Meeting with ex-guerrillas
On Wednesday, the journey will proceed in Cali, the place Doña Letizia will go to a cooperative of ex-guerrilla fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who develop and promote espresso. This initiative, which is funded by the EU, is promoted along with the Colombian National Reincorporation Agency (ARN) and the Mesa Nacional del Café Association.
Spain has been supporting Colombia because the peace settlement signed by the then president, Juan Manuel Santos, with the FARC guerrillas in 2016, supporting initiatives like this one to offer financial alternatives to former combatants in addition to making vital contributions to the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (Truth Commission, Special Jurisdiction for Peace and Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons).
The queen may also have the chance to go to one other Workshop School on this metropolis. In this case, the educating is extra centered on coaching in gardening. With this go to, throughout which she’s going to have the ability to discuss with a few of the younger folks from the middle, Doña Letizia will have the ability to finish her go to to the nation.
The 23J didn’t jeopardize the journey
The sources have assured that the electoral advance has not at any time raised the suspension of the journey, which was exactly introduced ahead by King Felipe VI throughout the go to to Spain in the beginning of May of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.
“The Government isn’t in workplace and Spanish Cooperation deserves to make what it’s doing seen”, they’ve maintained, stressing that the Queen’s journeys are an incredible alternative for this in addition to the joint work that the 2 nations have been finishing up no matter who has been accountable for them.
Doña Letizia’s Cooperation journeys have already grow to be a convention in addition to an incredible event to publicize the work that each the AECID and the Spanish NGOs in addition to the autonomous communities and native entities perform in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Africa.
The first of those displacements occurred in 2015 and was destined for Honduras and El Salvador. In 2016 there was no journey, however since that 12 months they’ve occurred on the fee of 1 per 12 months, even in 2020 within the midst of the covid-19 pandemic.
Thus, in 2017 he was in Senegal, in 2018 he traveled to the Dominican Republic and Haiti, in 2019 he traveled to Mozambique and in 2020 he repeated in Honduras, which had simply been hit by two hurricanes. In 2021 she traveled to Paraguay whereas in May 2022 she made the final one, with Mauritania as her vacation spot.
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