The clock marked 3 A.m.of September 17, 2021 when 21 people, 12 children and 9 adults of informal settlement Nuevo Dawn in the Aurora de Alajuelita, changed their lives forever.
A landslide ripped their illusions and their only ceilings where to live.They lost it practically everything because the inclement weather took everything in its path to the Virilla river.
The little that was intact is in danger and to access it they must walk very carefully because the land was falsified.
They went to the Mixed Institute of Social Assistance (IMAS) to seek the possibility of receiving some type of subsidy and seeing how they helped themselves in the meantime.
However, the only thing they received, as they said, was a three -month help and already told them that the State will not help them more.
CNE Report
The National Emergency Commission (CNE) prepared a report on the slide in the new dawn informal settlement in the Aurora de Alajuelita community.
This document indicates that the area where the slip was generated is characterized by irregular topography and that possibly, over time, material was deposited and a rubble slope was formed where the houses were settled.
The CNE warned about the lack of good evacuation systems of storm and served waters from the upper part, plus the structural load of the constructions.
The report made a strong call to the Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements (Mivah), to the National Institute of Housing and Urban Planning (INVU), to the Mixed Institute of Social Assistance (IMAS) and other institutions linked to risk management so that they find alternativesFor these families.
Amparo resource
Those affected resorted to the Constitutional Chamber as a salvation to the uncertainty they are living at this time.They interposed an appeal for the magistrates of the highest court.
The purpose is that both the IMAS and the Municipality of Alajuelita have to do the corresponding actions to enforce the recommendation of the National Emergency Commission (CNE).
They related the anguish of families because they do not have a stable source of work and every time they go to the state institution they always find evasive to give the matter long and offer only temporary aids.
Before the closure of the doors of those who rent them, they had to return to the land that today is under threat of a collapse as long as minors have a roof to sleep.
The families of the district of San Felipe de Alajuelita, specifically in this informal settlement, face strong social problems such as unemployment and poverty.They denounced that none of the authorities are fixed in the aid they require.
The case is processed under file 22-001839-0007-CO.
Muni responds
Through the Communication Office, the Municipality of Alajuelita said that “these families were given with the IMAS and they already beat them.IMAS gives it a help for 3 months and after that, as an institution we already did the corresponding process.We made the letter to see if the IMAS can help them ”.
What does the IMAS say?
“Families received resources for the replacement of basic belongings and with the granting of rent for three months, which had to extend one more month and, product of the socio -economic valuation, it has worked with some situations of vulnerability of present in severalmembers of affected families ".
Cry help
José Manuel Vado
“Since this happened they only offered us three months of rent and they told us that they were going to see if they put us a housing project, but they have not responded to us, because we already went to the municipality and they tell us nothing, they tell us that thatIt corresponds to the IMAS and the ball is being thrown between them ”.
Macaria Martínez
"IMAS helped us at the beginning, after four months they flew to the street, we have walked around and we close the doors and we don't even know if they leave us waiting list".
Jheomayra Chavarría
“I was one of those affected, my house was completely broken.I am out of work, alive of seams and with so much sacrifice I made the house of my children sewing day and night, everything collapsed.I have where to go and the municipality is turning our backs when we needed it most ”.
Angelica María Chavarría
"We sincerely feel very bad.I had to spend last night with my four children and my husband here where the collapse was, with fear and fear that something bad will happen.We have no money to rent and we do not have an institution that wants to rent more;Neither way, we have to spend here and see how we settled down ".
Journalist: Greivin Granados
Credits: Photos: Johanfred Bonilla
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Friday, January 28, 2022
Time: 12:00 am