Contribution to overcoming extreme poverty: leadership, a conquest in the agency of women

Abstract

This article is the result of research work developed with leader mothers form the program More Families in Action- Solidarity Medellin, belonging to the commune 13- San Javier de Medellin. Which, it aimed to make an approach to the meanings constructed by them against their role as the above contribute to overcoming extreme poverty, thus enabling the generation of reflections that allows to consolidate and to strengthen every time more the accompaniment that has been done with each of them. The above-mentioned allowed identifying how leadership built by women is related to their ability to believe, direct, self-lead and be agents of their own development. Simultaneously, these aspects allow them to gradually converge organizational and community processes in their territories, seeking to convey and transform from the needs evidenced in their own homes, but also from the interest in building ways of gathering around spaces that are common and to discover potentials in that way.