Marianella Acuña Pérez is barely 11 years old. She wakes up early wanting to go to school herself and she realizes that she is surrounded by water.
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The cauca river has furiously entered the rural area of Sucre (Sucre), in the sub-region of La Mojana and now she is ‘barricaded’ on boards, a dairy built by her father so that the family does not drown.
To bathe is to use the same water of the river and half taste a mouthful so that in a canoe you start a journey towards your Educational institution. They are stagnant waters with considerable depth for her age, but she takes risks because of her desire to be educated.
He manages to reach an area where the level of the aguas and then he has to walk between puddles and the mud of the uncovered roads.
For her and other children in the region, the journey becomes an odyssey whenever winter gets worse and the towns of La Mojana suffer from floods.
The same history
Marianella’s story is the same as that of almost all the children in the rural areas of this subregion affected for 10 months by floods.
“Children are the ones who suffer the most from the situation, because they are used to being free, enjoying life, playing, being with their friends, going to school and the effects of the winter It harms them in everything,” says Javier Pérez, a resident of La Mojana.
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All rural areas are affected by the floods and seriously damaged educational institutions.
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He says that this has not been the exception, but that among all the needs they face, not being able to teach classes becomes the most difficult after the situation they suffered with the pandemic.
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“All rural areas are affected by the floods and seriously damaged educational institutions, such as Manuel Álvarez Sampayo, Pueblo Nuevo, La Güaripa, Bajo Grande, San Cayetano, San José de Calastraba, the western area, the area of Pancegüita”, he manifests.
They told us that the following week the service would start and it never came
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Enrique Aguas Acuña is a teacher at the Educational Institution of Palmaritoin the rural area of Majagual, which states that 45 percent of the students come from other districts and villages in the midst of the greatest difficulties.
“Students from La Ventura, El Totumal, Corredor, El Garzal, GuamalitoCacagüal and Corneliano, who do not get to receive their classes because all the roads are broken, “he says.
He states that on many occasions they have passed letters to the municipal administration requesting support with the School bus and fluvial, in addition to bicycles.
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Parents made the decision to close some schools.
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“On May 2 and 3 we were summoned to a meeting with all the principals who need school transportation, such as Zapata, Piza, Tomala, Sincelejito, La Sierpita and Boca de las Mujeres. They told us that the service would start the following week and it never came,” explained the teacher.
Parents made the decision to close the college pending a solution from the municipal administration.
IE La Palma
Orlando Vanegas, an educator at the Manuel Álvarez Sampayo, in the village of La Palma, in Sucre (Sucre), shows the empty classrooms because the students have not been able to attend classes.
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The hello winter it also leaves the tracks in awful condition with no fix in sight. “We call on Mayor Elvira Julia Mercado to face us and seek a prompt solution,” she specified.
In other educational venues, classrooms and other facilities remain flooded, so teachers decided to suspend classes due to the danger faced by students.
Parents described the situation as unfair, reaching a month without receiving classes due to the problem of floods, the pathways and the lack of school transportation.
In earmuffs
The most difficult situation is recorded in the corregimiento of earmuffforgotten town in the rural area of Sucre (Sucre).
The town is completely flooded, the currents of the Cauca River entered the houses and the people live on dairy farms. In the local school the children help to draw the water accompanied by a teacher.
The need is breathed in every corner, without the hand of the local government having reached the region, in accordance with its population.
María García, leader of the population, cries out for help from the municipal administration, as she walks through the streets showing the need in the midst of the waters.
Education is paralyzed in the La Mojana subregion. Schools remain flooded, roads collapsed and children do not have school transportation to reach the few dry places. For now, education fails the school year.
Francisco Javier Barrios
Special for WEATHER
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