Colombia – education in the face of violence
Posted on Friday, August 21st, 2015
Our HEAT trained film crew are en route to South America to work with a UK university at rural schools in Antioquia.
The world Bank: “With its green hills and quaint valleys hidden under a layer of fog, the department of Antioquia in Colombia, looks very much like a landscape out of a fairytale. However, it was once the scene of violent conflict, which is still not over. Between 2004 and 2006, about 163,000 people became internally displaced. If in 2005, 90% of children went to primary school, less than 50% of the young people went to secondary school in 2007.
But the department represents also 13% of the country’s GDP, the second most important department after the capital, Bogota, according to 2011 government numbers, and represents thus a great potential for young people.”
Medellín’s transformation from murder capital to bustling city has helped to encourage international study. The City’s recovery from the drug cartels that ruled by terror and, for a time, made the city the most dangerous in the world is evident and investment and improvements in security in the past 20 years have allowed it to shed its reputation as a murder capital. In a recent study of the world’s most dangerous cities, it was ranked only 49th, and is likely fall out of the top 50 this year.
The ebbing of the violence and the restoration of normality have improved conditions in Medellín, and one of the beneficiaries has been the country’s education system.
So … the recovery of an entire city as a direct result of efficient crisis management and disaster recovery policies (and investment!).
Our HEAT trained film crew are en route to South America to work with a UK university at rural schools in Antioquia.
The world Bank: “With its green hills and quaint valleys hidden under a layer of fog, the department of Antioquia in Colombia, looks very much like a landscape out of a fairytale. However, it was once the scene of violent conflict, which is still not over. Between 2004 and 2006, about 163,000 people became internally displaced. If in 2005, 90% of children went to primary school, less than 50% of the young people went to secondary school in 2007.
But the department represents also 13% of the country’s GDP, the second most important department after the capital, Bogota, according to 2011 government numbers, and represents thus a great potential for young people.”
Medellín’s transformation from murder capital to bustling city has helped to encourage international study. The City’s recovery from the drug cartels that ruled by terror and, for a time, made the city the most dangerous in the world is evident and investment and improvements in security in the past 20 years have allowed it to shed its reputation as a murder capital. In a recent study of the world’s most dangerous cities, it was ranked only 49th, and is likely fall out of the top 50 this year.
The ebbing of the violence and the restoration of normality have improved conditions in Medellín, and one of the beneficiaries has been the country’s education system.
So … the recovery of an entire city as a direct result of efficient crisis management and disaster recovery policies (and investment!).
Colombia - education in the face of violence