A land; a dream, an opportunity, a future
'Desde La Raíz' – From the Roots Up is an opportunity for those who laid down their arms and bet on entrepreneurship to showcase and commercialize products and services at the national level. In addition to preserving the roots from their regions, this initiative epitomizes ex-combatants' effort, footprint and drive to move forward.
We highlight the origin of the ex-combatant population upon the basis of their accumulated experiences, which define who they are now through their products. This initiative goes above and beyond mere consumption and becomes a commitment to the country and its roots, to become 'Facts with History' .
PROJECTS AND PRODUCTIVE INITIATIVES OF EX-COMBATANTS
It is a strategy of the Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization (ARN) which undertakes to support and promote the initiatives and productive projects of the ex-combatant population in reintegration and reincorporation processes, in order for them to effectively and visibly market their products through digital platforms.
These stories come from every corner of Colombia; they are strengthened in the ancestral roots, love for their craft, their desire to move forward and to foster entrepreneurship. It is a wide range of products from across the country, thus leaving a mark in the history of new opportunities for those who laid down their arms and currently bet on legality.
Caguán Expeditons
TURISMO AVENTURA
San Vicente del Caguán Caquetá
It is an adventure tourism project that offers rafting tours on the Pato River, travel experiences with nature, historical memory and adventure, under the guidance and accompaniment of the Remando por la Paz – Rowing for Peace Team, made up of ex-combatants and members from the community. This team participated in the 2019 World Rafting Championship in Tully, Australia.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Carlos Ariel García
317 5644378
caguanexpeditions@gmail.com
CONFECCIONES DE CALIDAD
CIRO GÓMEZ
Dressmaking and leather goods workshop for bags and briefcases. Ciro Gomez is a graduate of the reintegration process, and has been recognized for manufacturing these pieces for big brands like Totto, as well as making briefcases for the 2018 World Cup in Russia that were bought by Caracol Radio and W Radio Colombia.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ciro Gomez Guerrero
314 302100
MALIJA DISEÑOS
Bogotá
This is a clothing company that has been in operation since 2014. Its owner is a reintegration process graduate; through this undertaking, she has engaged other single mothers, victims of the armed conflict, and they work hand in hand with the World Women’s Corporation for women to make clothing. In times of pandemic, Malija Diseños manufactures biosafety items.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ederlida Garizao
321 3100236 – 305 2970590
CONFECCIONES VÁSQUEZ
HERNÁNDEZ
Bogotá
This company is dedicated to the manufacture and sale of unisex clothing, specializing in the manufacture of jackets and jeans. Confecciones Vasquez Hernandez features high-quality designer products that constantly innovate designs apace with market trends.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rodolfo Vásquez Mahecha
310 3379691
TEJIENDO PAZ - MANIFIESTA
La Fila Former Territorial Space – Icononzo (Tolima)
This entrepreneurship initiative features women’s clothing, made by ex-combatants in the process of reincorporation, including designs of kimonos, blouses, capes, maxis and vests stand out.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Juan Dolores Perea Garabato
320 9643027
Angela María Herrera
313 3552691
Confecciones
'LA MONTAÑA'
Anorí (Antioquia)
Confecciones La Montaña is an initiative that went from making uniforms and supplies for the Farc-Ep ex-guerrillas to designing and producing bags for children, clothes, wallets and other accessories
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Cooperativa Multiactiva para el Desarrollo Económico y Social del Norte de Antioquia
305 4297748
coomuldesnacoop@gmail.com
@confeccioneslamontana07 
@VoluntadLa
J&V CUBRE TUS SUEÑOS
Bogotá
This business idea appertains to the clothing and manufacturing sector in Bogota. J&V CUBRE TUS SUEÑOS designs, produces and markets sheets, covers and cushions, among other home linen items, in addition to offering personalized counsel to all its clients.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lidia Alape Manrique
305 4297748
lidiaalape78@gmail.com
CREACIONES ALEJA
Bogotá
CREACIONES ALEJA is a productive project dedicated to the production of sheets and sales of blankets, pillows, bed covers, cushions, towels and other domestic and imported household items. This entrepreneur dreams of having his own import company, distributing top-quality products to expand the market and provide the best to his customers.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Luis Alejandro Torres
322 2122351
torres1883alejandro@gmail.com
DESTELLOS NOCTURNOS
Medellín
It is a business idea that has undertaken to design, manufacture and market pajamas in different sizes, for the whole family. Destellos Nocturnos has its own line of pajamas and provides employment to single mothers.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lidis Manuela Ávila Cardona
301 6253402
COLCHONES ALFRED
Medellín
COLCHONES ALFRED is an own brand driven by an individual in the process of reincorporation. COLCHONES ALFRED that produces and markets semi-orthopedic mattresses and upholstered pine-made bed bases in Medellin.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
José Alfredo Chavarría
311 3365617
CASA DE MODAS MIRYANI CADAVID
Duitama, Boyacá
This fashion company specializes in the manufacture of feminine garments such as vests, crochet tops, shirts with different textures and blouses out of different types of fabric. These designs are in keeping with the latest market trends.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Miryani Cadavid
3136621075
Miryanicadavid72@gmail.com
Casa de Modas Cadavid
CONFECCIONES AMALIA
San José del Guaviare, Guaviare
This is an individual productive project of a woman passionate about tailoring and haute couture. In her workshop, single mothers make corporate clothing for different institutions and uniforms for schools.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Amalia Garcia
311 2107561
Amaliagarciabautista1989@gmail.com
Y&D TALABARTERÍA
Ibagué, Tolima
This micro-enterprise from Ibague manufactures utensils for the field through leather transformation techniques. Pieces with different designs and colors are made, such as machete sheaths and hats.
CONTACT
Yosney Alvis
314 5138788
yydtalabarteria@gmail.com
MUNDO MADERAS
Yumbo (Valle del Cauca)
Out of Valle del Cauca, this company is led by three ex-combatants and offers design and manufacture of pallets, crates, tables and racks; wood drying and machining, as well as solutions for product packaging and storage. Mundo Maderas was awarded as a 2020 Innovative Promise by ANDI and its Foundation, USAID, Acdi/Voca and Portafolio.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
LM DISTRIBUCIONES
Medellín (Antioquia)
LM Distribuciones is a business idea that markets ear plugs (anatomical hearing protection) made with silicones imported from Germany and the United States. LM Distribuciones’ products have noise attenuation levels up to 33 decibels depending on the frequency.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ernesto Alirio Fierro
317 6494641
audix.comercial@gmail.com
ADACORA
Bogotá
This company provides cleaning, industrial and residential maintenance services in the city of Bogotá. In addition, ADACORA markets highly concentrated cleaning and disinfection products by the liter, gallon, or carafes.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rubiela García
4671666 - 3023804126
adacorasas@gmail.com
ELECTRODOMÉSTICOS YEDISON
Medellín
Video game consoles and hair irons and dryers are some of the main appliances that this venture sells wholesale and retail in Medellin.v
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Yedison Antonio Torres
310 3002878 - 302 2259580
EBANISTERÍA MARQUETALIA
(AETCR) El Oso - Planadas, Tolima.
This is a cabinetmaker’s workshop located at the El Oso former Territorial Space for Training and Reincorporation (aETCR), where four ex-combatants are engaged in the manufacture of home furnishings, utensils and wood crafts.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Leyton Torres
313 6145048
Yorley Torres
322 3086577
FURRIER JOSÉ AND ESTAMPADOS ALIX SOFIA
Supply distribution services for the manufacture and repair of footwear, as well as digital printing on T-shirts, cups, cushions, among others.
CONTACT INFORMATION
COOMPAZCOL – AG SHOP
Fonseca, La Guajira
This agricultural entrepreneurship is dedicated to the commercialization of agricultural and veterinary supplies (mineral salts, tools, boots, hoses, nets, bags and fertilizers, among others), veterinary medicine, agricultural tools, hardware, grass and vegetable seeds, at affordable prices and with excellent quality. It offers vaccination services and veterinary medicine; in the future, COOMPAZCOL hopes to have specialized agricultural and livestock technical service.
CONTACT DATA
Wilfran Martínez Rodríguez 310 5486573
wilfranmartinez47@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL ACCESSORIES WASH
Bogotá
Motorcycle and bicycle wash service, with four systems: express, special, advanced and premium. The wash booth is environmentally friendly, because it has a water filter process and uses biodegradable inputs.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Café
EL TERCER ACUERDO
El Oso Former Territorial Space – Planadas (Tolima)
This coffee is born in the mountains of southern Tolima. This project gathers Farc-Ep ex-combatants, coffee-growing families, producers, the Nasa Wesx Indigenous Reservation community and women leaders of the region in its stages of cultivation, production and marketing.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Daviel Antonio Oyola – Aldair Charry
@terceracuerdo
311 2183951- 321 9555417
aldaircharry12@gmail.com
Apiarios
LA BONANZA MIEL
Bogotá
This entrepreneurship initiative is led by Carlos Julio – a beekeeping specialized reintegration process graduate. Today, Apiarios La Bonanza Miel sells products out of the department of Boyacá, featuring honey, propolis, candy and Veleño guava paste, among others.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Carlos Julio Bernal – Alejandra Walteros
311 8038116
TINTO CAFÉ SAS
Guayabal de Siquima – Cundinamarca
This productive Project is dedicated to the transformation of coffee grown by ex-combatants and their families working in agriculture. This coffee includes caramel and chocolate, and has citrus flavors.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jonathan Orjuela
321 8229634
tintocafesas@gmail.com
NUECES DEL LLANO
Filipinas (Arauca)
Nueces del Llano is a business initiative where farmers and ex-combatants in the process of reincorporation leverage on our biodiversity and turn sacha inchi into food products.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Fidel Pérez 320 3238845
filirmarpazsas@gmail.com
LA TROCHA
Bogotá
La Trocha is an Ale Porter style craft beer with an intense flavor, in which malt and hops stand out. It was born amidst the implementation of the reincorporation process, and is manufactured with love, a desire for change and a desire for peace.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Corporación trabajo, dignidad y solidaridad (Tradso)
Doris Suárez
latrocha64@gmail.com
350 5912431
@trochacerveza
Café
LA ESPERANZA
Popayán (Cauca)
Café La Esperanza is a product made by rural communities and ex-combatants that purveys the tranquility, diversity and friendliness akin to lands. The end of the conflict allowed the creation of a new aroma and exclusive flavor: that of reconciliation.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
FRUTOS DEL AMANECER
Cali (Valle del Cauca)
Frutos del Amanecer is an organic and dehydrated product grown by peasants and indigenous victims of violence in Cajibío (Cauca) and commercialized by a group of singe farmer women in the municipality of Ginebra (Valle del Cauca).
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Johan Andrés Niño Calderon
311 4826230
serviampaz@gmail.com
LA MIEL DE LA MONTAÑA
Medellín
La Miel de la Montaña is a project led by Farc-Ep ex-combatants in the process of reincorporation who took off their military garments and put on the uniform of peace and the defense of biodiversity.
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CAFÉ PARAMILLO
Medellín
Café Paramillo is the result of the union of peasants, victims and ex-combatants of Farc-Ep. This product has caramel, honey, chocolate and red fruits flavors, with just the right acidity for an exquisite tasting.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
CIUDAD PAZ
Cali - Valle del Cauca
Ciudad Paz is a proposal that seeks to link the countryside and the city to generate binds that build trust. Ciudad Paz undertakes to achieve its goal through the production and sale of environmentally sustainable productive projects such as honey, dehydrated fruit, making facemasks and community actions.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
VEGANOS DE MI TIERRA
Bogotá
VEGANOS DE MI TIERRA is an entrepreneurship initiative that was born from the need to make vegan food available to all people, as well as to raise awareness of humanity about caring for the environment. This reincorporation process-driven project sells biodegradable packaging, dehydrated and aromatic fruit snacks at affordable prices for companies and homes in the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyaca.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Café
LA REDENCIÓN
Medellin
Chocolates made with organic cocoa with a high content of fiber, antioxidants, proteins , minerals and vitamins, which is committed to the country and to reconciliation . All their chocolates are free of animal products and their derivatives.
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ASOCIACIÓN ASOMAPROSO
El Oso, Planadas, Tolima
The Association of Women Producers of El Oso (Asomaproso), from El Oso former Territorial Training and Reincorporation Space (aETCR), sells high quality red tilapia raised and harvested in warm water ponds at a temperature no higher than 28°C. Its weight for sale ranges between 300 and 500 grams, it keeping with the commercialization requirements of skin tone and gill cleaning. The coloration of the fish is red or pink.
CONTACT
Rosa Mará Bocanegra
+51 1 317 3558822
CERVEZA LA ROJA
Bogotá
La Roja Cerveza is a project for artisanal malted beer with 5.5% alcohol, made by 24 people in the process of reincorporation. These entrepreneurs bet on the construction of peace and strengthening alternative production processes.
CONTACT
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE FOR PEACE
San Antonio de Anacónia Township, Neiva, Huila
The Women's Committee for Peace was created in February 2020. It is an organization led by 52 women ex-combatants and victims of the conflict in Neiva, Huila. They are responsible for the production and marketing of semi-organic peasant eggs that are distributed door to door in stores and homes in the city of Neiva.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
NATIVA DE LA SERRANÍA
ETCR Carrizal, Remedios (Antioquia)
This beekeeping business idea has a sustainable production system that seeks to promote the continuity of habitat and biological diversity in addition to helping ex-combatants to strengthen their life and development system.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
INTERACTIVE FARM - LA VACA LOLA
Cali – Valle del Cauca
It is a collective initiative, where about 15 people in the process of reincorporation bet on different productive alternatives such as livestock, agriculture, fish farming, laying hens and a home garden to strengthen the food sustainability of the families of the people in the process, in the outskirts of the city of Cali.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Horacio Castro
310 4304148
horcafe1958@gmail.com
RED TILAPIA - COOPERATIVA COOFORTUNA
San José de León - Mutatá, Antioquia.
This collective tilapia project benefits 58 people in reincorporation, has 10 fattening ponds with a capacity to produce 65 thousand fish and a freezing cellar with the capacity to store up to one and a half tons of 🐟🎣.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Luis Carlos Suárez 323 5233482
lafortunademutata@gmail.com 
@san_jose_de_leon
HARVEST OF THE VALLEY
Cali – Valle del Cauca
They are products marketed by ex-combatants from the city of Cali, among which are pure bee honey and its derivatives produced by bees from the Cosecha del Valle apiary, and organic dehydrated fruit grown by indigenous and peasant victims of the conflict in Cajibío, Cauca.
FILIMARPAZ SAS
AETCR Philippines, Arauca.
This Araucanian company is made up of 33 people in reincorporation and is dedicated to the planting, processing and marketing of Sacha Inchi in oil, neutral walnut and walnut with chocolate.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
HONEY MONTES DE MARÍA '3M'
Vereda Maratón - Colosó Montes de María – Sucre.
The Asociación Agropecuaria Multiactiva de los Montes de María - Asoagromon , produces organic honey, without any kind of additives, the result of a work with the care of the environment and the preservation of the species.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Pablo Ricardo Carrascal Arrieta
311 2560165 / 312 2443193
Asoagromon Apícola
LAS COLINAS PANELERA CAÑA
San José del Guaviare (AETCR Las Colinas)
It is a productive chain of panela cane and panela production, which has 22 hectares of cultivated cane. This project is promoted by 23 people from the region, of which 20 are ex-combatants in the process of reincorporation and 3 are members of the community.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Gabriel Alonso Gutiérrez
320 8884128
COOMPAZCOL EGGS
Granja San Luis, municipio de Fonseca, La Guajira
This is a project dedicated to the commercialization of eggs and laying hens that complete their cycle. Likewise, for the group of ex-combatants, this business idea acquired importance as it has allowed them to strengthen their bonds of friendship with the community of the Conejo district and neighboring villages of the municipality of Fonseca #LaGuajira.
CAFÉ EDIYAURA
Vereda Miravalles Pitalito, Huila
Ediyaura is a special coffee grown in the fertile lands of southern Huila at 1,630 meters above sea level. Its quality and flavor are represented by experience, technical training, specialized advice and production technology, as well as the love, dedication and workforce of peasants in love with the field and its crops.
COOMUNTU - COCONUT AND COCOA
Sonsón, Antioquia
Coomuntu is a cooperative made up of people in the process of reincorporation who produce and market coconut wholesale and retail, in its different varieties: manila, large, medium and clove. Also, for those interested, they sell ordinary cocoa wholesale.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Segundo Ordoñez 
3204750030 / 3107374246
coomuntu@gmail.com
@coomuntu.tumaco
HELADERÍA DAIALIB
Cali, Valle del Cauca
DAIALIB ICE CREAM PARLOR is an opportunity of art and recreation for children and their families. Their signature-style ice cream is refreshing and lingers with a flavorful aftertaste in customers’ tastebuds. This entrepreneurship initiative provides job opportunities to single mothers in the city of Cali.
CONTACT DATA
Luz Edith Echeverry 318 8051527
luzecheverry2809@hotmail.com
PESCAPAZ
Quibdó, Chocó
This fish farming project aims to produce Red Tilapia fish in Chocó. The most salient features of this fish includes total absence of mercury and chemicals. Pescapaz seeks to position themselves as partners for a healthy diet.
MITES ARTESANÍA
Bogotá
Manufacture of baskets in various sizes and presentations made with teapot straw, a material used by the Eperara Siapidara ethnic group to make basketry, thus epitomizing artisan tradition.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
María Nilsa Gruesso 319 3629864
lilianagrueso1991@gmail.com
@Mi+es
SCHOOL OF MARBLE ARTS AND CRAFTS
Sonsón, Antioquia
It is a community territorial initiative with a reconciliation approach led and formed 4 years ago, which carves souvenirs and other objects in marble, which are commercialized in different scenarios of the country.
ARTESANO DE PAZ
Antiguo ETCR La Variante, Tumaco, Nariño
This entrepreneurship initiative consists of making handicrafts for the home using recyclable materials. The most outstanding pieces include vases, fruit bowls and decorative animals, among others. Each product has its own design and can be customized according to the customers’ preferences.
CONTACT DATA
Emilio Perlaza 3113426716
artesanodepaz@gmail.comcom
CARPINTERÍA ASTILLEROS
Puerto barqueros, Tibú (Norte de Santander)
Carpintería Astilleros carries out wood work using a conventional style to create living room sets, beds, night tables and construction of wooden canoes, which is its main service in the area. since the commercialization and transport between trails is carried out through the Catatumbo river.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Valentín Sanguino Villamizar 313 6318015