This Wednesday, the Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, accompanied the launch of the Social Troop, which will be in charge of the search, identification and care of more than 100,000 households prioritizing female headship, which are usually in a situation of poverty and vulnerability in the city.
In the company of the Secretary for Social Integration, Xinia Navarro; the Secretary of Health, Alejandro Gómez; and the local mayor of Fontibón, Carlos Lozada; Mayor Claudia López accompanied the first group of the Social Troop that began its work to identify poor, vulnerable and hidden poverty households in the La Giralda neighborhood in order to know their needs and present the District's services offer. “Today our Social Troop begins the challenge of reaching the homes of thousands of poor and vulnerable women who are heads of households and who have a huge burden of care on their shoulders. Our goal is that by June of next year this troop reaches more than 700 thousand women to bring services such as health, programs such as RETO a la U and all the offer we have from the District to improve their quality of life to their homes, ”said the mayor Claudia López.
Through the remainder of the year, the Social Troop, made up of 286,080 people, will reach a total of 104,607 female-led households, and will be located in 258 neighborhoods in 19 boroughs in the city. Each time a home is visited, a characterization is carried out to identify social emergency alerts such as:
• Risk of domestic violence.
• Nutritional risk in children or pregnant mothers.
• Out-of-school childhood.
• Families with young people who neither study nor work (NINI).
• Unemployment.
• Health conditions that are not being treated.
• Home ownership at risk.
• People over 60 years of age without family support networks and without income.
• Families with people engaged in paid sexual activities.
• Women heads of households who perform care work without income.
Additionally, after characterization, the Troop can link the home to the District's social services. The troop may offer services of the Ministry of Health, link to early childhood care programs, the population with disabilities and the elderly. Also activation of the RETO strategy for young people who neither study nor work (NEET) and entrepreneurship and employability strategies with prioritization of women. “We want to agree upon a social contract with these households that seeks to reduce the feminization of poverty.
The Social Troop is responsible for monitoring each of the households characterized because the ultimate goal is to achieve social mobilization, to get out of the condition of poverty or vulnerability. We want to provide comprehensive care and that can only be achieved with a territorial strategy and door-to-door work, ”said the Secretary for Social Integration, Xinia Navarro. The Social Troop is made up of 1,560 professionals, technicians and community agents belonging to the local mayoralties, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Integration. As part, the District Health Secretariat will carry out a task of characterization of families, risk management and identification of health care needs to provide the services that people require.
The mission of #TropaSocialBogotá is to reach 104,000 poor female headed households by December 31st of this year with the provision of services.
— Relaciones Internacionales Bogotá (@BogotaInter_nal) November 12, 2020
We will improve the quality of life of women heads of household.
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According to the survey carried out and the alerts identified, the necessary attention can be channeled to this population, especially to households headed by a woman. “In recent months we have implemented a strategy to bring health to the homes of the inhabitants of the city and not have them go looking for us.
We accompany this initiative with our teams in the territory, identifying the health needs of families in their homes and providing them with the necessary care. Health with a territorial and decisive approach is part of the model that we are proposing to make the Development Plan a reality ”, stated the Secretary of Health of Bogotá, Alejandro Gómez. The work of the Social Troop is framed in the Comprehensive Social Territorial Strategy, ETIS, which is the model to understand, reach, participate and deliver social services to individuals, families and communities in the territories. In this way, integrative responses are developed in the territories in coordination with the District Care System, in order to have an offer of relevant services for the families that need it most.
