On Friday afternoon, Mayor Francisco Azcué led a new delivery of certificates to territorial operators who will work on the “Relevar” Project, carried out by the Secretariat of Human Development with different areas of the Municipality of Concordia with the objective of obtaining social information from the different neighborhoods of the city.
“We have a dream that has to do with the transformation of our city; we want to move Concordia forward, for it to be a land of opportunities, where there are possibilities for everyone,” leaving behind the latest indicators that point out “that we are one of the poorest cities in the country,” remarked Mayor Azcué.
That is why a management approach is being carried out that leaves welfare-based policies behind to be “a State that goes out into the street, that looks its residents in the eye and tells them that we are here to accompany them and give them the necessary tools to have opportunities,” adding that to achieve this it is important “to be prepared and not underestimate the situation. To tell them that we have a plan, that we know where we are going and how to do it.”
Azcué maintained that in these first two months of government, “we have managed to carry out these public policies that are important for the city and where the territorial operators are a significant component, which is why I thank you for this willingness to train, to learn, and for the commitment to improve reality.”
“We are going to continue developing this program throughout the city, reaching places where the Municipality was not present before, allocating resources that were previously used for political privileges. We want the people of Concordia not to have to depend on any political favor, without failing to address the urgent, but we cannot be continuously making a cult of the emergency. We are convinced that this is the path and it is the commitment we assumed from the first day.”
TEAMWORK
In his words, the Secretary of Human Development Sebastián Arístide thanked the commitment of the people who decided to get involved in the “Relevar” Project as operators, highlighting the good disposition they had during this training time.
To obtain good results, it is important to have “teamwork, with the ability to detect each of the problems using all the tools, understanding that the operators are the first face that the community will see of the Municipality, which for a long time was disconnected from the reality that the residents lived.”
That is why in this administration “we return to having that connection through you (the operators) who are part of different areas of the Municipality. You have a very important role in this approach that we began to carry out with the objective of reaching all the neighborhoods of the city.”
LINK BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE MUNICIPALITY
Territorial operators are a central figure in the execution, control, monitoring, promotion, and prevention of health and the environment, centered on the person and their reality, since they constitute themselves as close references, who accompany, inform, prevent, and promote healthy behaviors and improvement of their condition, becoming links between the community, the Secretariat of Human Development, and the different government areas. Hence the importance of the Territorial Operator having the necessary tools for their training.
On the occasion, the work of the training team and the survey and approach coordination board was also recognized.