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The document summarizes a town called Nueva Venecia located on an island inhabited by over 3,000 people. It has no roads or health centers, and the only means of transport is by boat. The town has faced violence but the community has built a floating soccer field and relies on tourism and fishing for income. Government support is needed to improve living conditions.

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ARTICLE Ingles Uniminuto

The document summarizes a town called Nueva Venecia located on an island inhabited by over 3,000 people. It has no roads or health centers, and the only means of transport is by boat. The town has faced violence but the community has built a floating soccer field and relies on tourism and fishing for income. Government support is needed to improve living conditions.

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ARTICLE

A TOWN IN WATER

GROPU M

ERICKA SKARLY GUTIERREZ PAEZ ID: 278683

LUZ FANEIRA MACHADO HERRERA ID: 670327

MARIA ALEJANDRA PERDOMO RIOS ID: 470917

MONICA ALEJANDRA BETANCUR GUTIERREZ ID: 612745

DIEGO ARMANDO FRANCO RODRIGUEZ ID: 466252

TUTOR

LUISA FERNANDA MOLINA BOTERO

ADMINISTRACIÓN EN SALUD OCUPACIONAL

UNIVERSIDAD MINUTO DE DIOS

IBAGUE- TOLIMA

2021
INTRODUCTION

Article is to satisfy the needs of the inhabitants of the new venice, this is an island of more
than 3,000 people, the only means of transport is the boat; There are no health centers but
there is a great love for soccer which motivated them to build a floating soccer field. Venice,
a town of stilt houses built in the waters of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, the largest
lake complex in Colombia, which has a natural habitat of native and migratory birds, they
resist sinking in the pain of violence and see the best outing with tourism and fishing.
We carried out this work in order to analyze an article written by a Colombian author offered
by the EWA magazine where we analyze the situation of a people that is mired in poverty
and has had a situation of violence which we live in the newspaper in our country the
reflection we give is of a personal nature and with our own criteria.
A TOWN IN WATER

CREDITOS CLAUDIA POLANCO YERMANOS

DEVELOPING

Nueva Venecia is a town like many in Colombia where violence has been the protagonist, the
inhabitants of this place have been resilient people within the current circumstances, they
have been in charge of being protagonists wanting to get ahead especially forgetting those
painful passages where people at The margins of the law have tried to extinguish their dreams
and illusions by killing family and friends, in the community of Nueva Venecia they have
carried out different activities in order to continue with their lives and bring to their children,
children and adolescents the joy of being able to have a recreation healthy.

Government institutions must intervene by carrying out a decentralization where support and
reparation are provided to these people who despite their condition of poverty did not escape
the aforementioned episodes of violence, the people need urgent help to improve their
psychological emotions , moral, social and economic. In order that the children and
adolescents who live there improve in some way their quality of life, taking into account that

The town of Nueva Venecia is in the middle of the waters, it is inhabited by men, women
and children, their houses are made of wood and their only transport is canoes, since they do
not have roads, all around them are waters, the people who They live there, they survive on
the fish and the visits of tourists, they only have a small health center, with a school, shops
and a canoe-building workshop, before they did not have electricity, since 2000 they have
this benefit and they only ask that President Ivan Duque not abandon them and allow the
bridge that divides Barranquilla with Cienaga to be rebuilt so that there is plenty of fish to
New Venecia.

They receive tourists who arrive in motorboats after enjoying a landscape in which a
system of lagoons interconnected by pipes stands out. About 10 minutes from Nueva
Venecia, where the water level reaches only two meters deep, visitors are received in canoes
with the Colombian flag. "Welcome to New Venice, land of peace," shout the guides, dressed
in jeans, blue T-shirts and beige caps. There begins the visit to the stilt houses, where
residents wait at the door of houses carefully painted pink, green, blue, red and orange.
Conclusion

This island, despite being so poor, hit by violence and not having the support of the
government, is a people that wants to get ahead and show that despite the circumstances we
have to do everything we can to survive, fight for our families, continue to have dreams and
try to achieve them even in the adverse moments that arise in life.
There are episodes where our existence is complicated and many times we feel we lose all
hope but this article "a town in the water" has shown us that in the worst human conditions
instead of letting ourselves fall we have to get up every day to give everything for our
families to help to our communities which we have built and we do not want to disappear.

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