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COLOMBIA / DISPLACED LAND TITLES
STORY: COLOMBIA / DISPLACED LAND TITLES
TRT: 02:38
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 DECEMBER 2017, NUEVA ESPERANZA, DEPARTMENT OF PUTUMAYO, COLOMBIA
08 DECEMBER 2017, NUEVA ESPERANZA, DEPARTMENT OF PUTUMAYO, COLOMBIA
1. Med shot, Alba opening her shop
2. Various shots, Alba with customer at her shop window
3. Med shot, home in Nueva Esperanza
4. Wide shot, man walking on road
5. Wide shot, children playing in park
6. Med shot, house in Nueva Esperanza
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Sersale, Head of Mocoa Office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Most of IDPs, internally displaced people, who live in these informal settlements don’t have a basic access to rights. So, the right to adequate housing, rights to water and sanitation, rights to education.”
8. Wide shot, Alba visiting neighbour
9. Close up, Alba holding photo of one of her sons
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alba Pinto, Founder of Nueva Esperanza:
“When I lost all three, for me it was as if my world had ended.”
11. Various shots, children at UNHCR community centre
12. Wide shot, children playing football at community centre
13. Wide shot, Alba getting land title out of closet
14. Close up, Alba reading land title
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Sersale, Head of Mocoa Office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“With a land title, they can access certain subsidies which they couldn’t access if they were living in a place which isn’t legalized. As a neighbourhood, they can also start to access basic services which they couldn’t access before because it wasn’t recognized by the municipality.”
16. Various shots, Alba reading land title
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alba Pinto, Founder of Nueva Esperanza:
“I feel happiness and security. I now have what I needed, what I thought I would never have.”
18. Wide shot, Alba walking with granddaughter
19. Close up, Alba speaking to graddaughter
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alba Pinto, Founder of Nueva Esperanza:
“The inheritance that I was going to leave for my sons is already left for her.”
21. Wide shot, Alba walking with granddaughter
In Nueva Esperanza, “New Hope” in English, residents are finally getting access to basic rights and a formal identity for their community of forcibly displaced people.
Alba Pinto was among dozens of displaced families who fled to Nueva Esperanza in 2001. She said when they arrived the area was all a forest. Alba said the families used machetes to clear areas they liked and marked their parcels with plastic bags.
More than five decades of armed conflict in Colombia have uprooted some 7.4 million people within the country’s borders. Many have fled to informal settlements and struggled to survive without access to decent housing, water and sanitation.
SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Sersale, Head of Mocoa Office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Most of IDPs, internally displaced people, who live in these informal settlements don’t have a basic access to rights. So, the right to adequate housing, rights to water and sanitation, rights to education.”
In Nueva Esperanza, Alba found a community who understood her heartache. Her husband disappeared in 2000, and in 2005 her three sons were killed.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alba Pinto, Founder of Nueva Esperanza:
“When I lost all three, for me it was as if my world had ended.”
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has been working in Nueva Esperanza since 2009 to improve the lives of its 258 families, helping build infrastructure, like running water and a cultural centre. It also empowered the community to fight for its rights.
In August 2017, after six years of struggle, Nueva Esperanza became the first informal settlement in the Putumayo region to win legal recognition; 160 people went from landless to landowners.
SOUNDBITE (English) Federico Sersale, Head of Mocoa Office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“With a land title, they can access certain subsidies which they couldn’t access if they were living in a place which isn’t legalized. As a neighbourhood, they can also start to access basic services which they couldn’t access before because it wasn’t recognized by the municipality.”
For the first time, Alba has the title to a place she can call home.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alba Pinto, Founder of Nueva Esperanza:
“I feel happiness and security. I now have what I needed, what I thought I would never have.”
This is a gift she can hand down to the future generations.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alba Pinto, Founder of Nueva Esperanza:
“The inheritance that I was going to leave for my sons is already left for her.”
From August 1997 to August 2017, 135,556 people were displaced by violence In Putumayo, a southern department of Colombia. In the municipality of Mocoa alone, there are 38,030. Though the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC forces has ended hostilities, violence persists in some areas, and many challenges remain for the forcibly displaced who cannot or will not go back to their original homes.
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