Unisinú Cartagena Law Program, Founding Member of the First University Network for Care and Comprehensive Monitoring of Migrants in Cartagena (RUASIM)
The University of Sinú, within the framework of the University Network of Attention and Comprehensive Monitoring of Migrants in Cartagena- RUASIM, attended the visit of officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in order to learn about the progress and the institutions involved with the project.
The objective of the RUASIM is to improve the indicators of access to rights to health, education and decent work, provide psychosocial and psychological care and guidance on migration normalization routes to the migrant population from Venezuela, Colombian returnees and the host population located in the city of Cartagena, through the articulation of the different spaces of social projection of the educational institutions that comprise it, among which are: San Buenaventura University, Cartagena University, Rafael Núñez University Corporation and SENA National Learning Service.
The constitution of the RUASIM Network was possible thanks to the important relations of academic exchange and information of the institutions of higher, technical and technological education of the city of Cartagena to give a comprehensive response to the humanitarian, social and cultural consequences of forced migration. . As well as the excessive demands for legal, social, psychological services, guidance on employability routes, required by migrants in collaboration with the local public entities in charge.
"For the Law Program of the Universidad del Sinú "Elías Bechara Zainúm" Cartagena Section, the connection and constitution as founding members responds to the articulation of the missionary axes of research, internationalization and social projection that will allow contributing to the efforts of the relevant actors in the promotion of the rights of the refugee and migrant population with the financing of the Donations Fund of the Community Stabilization Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), implemented by the International Organization for Migrations (IOM)," said Vanessa Quintana, Director of the Program.
