Since its birth in 2017, JUNTOS APARTE has found in a group of members of Cúcuta’s civil society the keystone for its deployment in the territory’s fabric. We invite you to meet our Support Committee.

JUNTOS APARTE Support Committee:

In Memoriam

Sylvia Corzo Román (RIP)

Working group

Jesús Iván Yáñez, Marta Garay, Ana María Morelli, Carmenza Sanmiguel, Mariana Brahim, Gloria Calad, Ingrid Hartmann, Mónica Vela Vicini, Yanet Ramírez, Zulima Ramírez, Pilar Lizarazo, Betty Parada, Giancarlo Rapone.

Collaborators

Pilar Brahim, Francisco Unda, Luis Fernando Niño, Abraham Ararat.

With platforms in Bogotá, Medellín and Cúcuta, El Derecho a No Obedecer stands out for its capacity for agitation and articulation, pointing out sensitive areas of the social and the territorial construction from the collective scope.

Advocacy from the articulated civil society in the construction of public policies is the commitment assumed in the border area and in Norte de Santander by our partner the Hablemos Foundation.

In 8 cities in Colombia and 3 different countries find in the Ciudad Verde a node for environmental commitment, while their Lunes de ciudad meetings arise as the spaces for citizen debate focusing on local emergencies.

Young migrants and Colombians find in the Casa Morada a space for collective learning and network building, allowing the empowerment of their initiatives and the strengthening of alliances with like-minded agents.

In a society where HIV is still taboo and stigmatized, the titanic work of the Hoasis Foundation, caring for HIV-positive people of any age, gender, sexual preference, geographical origin or social condition, is a veritable oasis in the middle of the desert.

An iron and cement structure, in the heart of Barrio Los Olivos, has allowed young people and children of Comuna 8 of Cúcuta to improve their conditions and materialize projects of life under shelter, after years of precarity in the open air.

The work of Corpatrimonio is one of the hardest to carry out in our region. On the eve of the Bicentenary of the birth of the republic in these lands, “the place where it all began”, their reason for being and the reasons for continuing to accompany them in their mission become reinforced.

With more than 3 years of experience, Fundación Venezolanos en Cúcuta is a pioneer in humanitarian aid to Venezuelans in a vulnerable situation in Norte de Santander, providing guidance, advice, medical, social and legal assistance, encouraging a dignified life with equal opportunities.

Through the Estar en la frontera platform, our allies, the Alliances for Reconciliation program and the newspaper La Opinión, facilitate a digital resource to provide reliable and updated information to the migrant population and the host society in Norte de Santander, Arauca and Guajira.

With the program Integrándonos construimos futuro, the Corporación Minuto de Dios and the Alliances for Reconciliation program strengthen productive units, reconciliation, and integration processes with the migrant population of Venezuela and the host society in the cities of Cúcuta, Arauca and Maicao.

Within the conference Digital Experiences in Exile, by Manuela Ochoa at JUNTOS APARTE 2017, the National Center of Historical Memory presented the territorial strategies that allowed the regional stories of the Museum of Memory of Colombia to be configured and coordinated on virtual platforms.

With her workshop The ABC of Racism in JUNTOS APARTE 2017 the Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz translated the logic created by her book of the same name focusing in Europe, bringing young people from the Colombian-Venezuelan border closer to a decolonial reading and a critical analysis of their context from an ethnic and gender scope.

The intervention Voices to transform Colombia in JUNTOS APARTE 2019 reactivated the presence of the National Center of Historical Memory in Norte de Santander, offering a space for interaction, mediation, regional gastronomy, urban culture and voice enunciation of victims, youth and visiting communities.

The Dominican philosopher, researcher and activist Yuderkis Espinosa shared in JUNTOS APARTE 2019 her vision on the role of racialized women and bodies in the context of the border in the midst of the global migration crisis, offering a composition of place based on necropolitics and decoloniality.

With Notes for Peace on the Border at JUNTOS APARTE 2019 in the iconic Zulima Theatre, the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process MAPP-OAS celebrated 15 years of activity in Norte de Santander. Carlos Gonzales and Miguel Grijalba, moderated by John Jácome, shared with the citizens a painful yet hopeful journey.

By the hand of Juan Sebastián Pérez, the National Center of Historical Memory intervened in the School of preparation in artistic mediation of JUNTOS APARTE 2019, guaranteeing an integral approach of the visions of the Colombian armed conflict and its particular connotations in the border area.

The director of the UNESCO World Centre for Peace, Guy Djoken, honoured us with a visit to JUNTOS APARTE 2019, actively participating in the circuit and offering an inspiring conference in the framework of Notes for Peace on the Border that mobilized a multitude of young binationals at the Zulima Theatre.

Thanks to Unesco Center for Peace, bei.cucuta, fundación Ceramica Italia