of a social project

Contribuciones a la formación ciudadana en el

marco de un proyecto social

Abstract

between the University Corporation

Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO and the

presented, within the framework of the

Practices in Social Responsibility and

information collected through the

interview (applied to the Psychologist

focus group (carried out in a group of

Practice in Social Responsibility

process) and social mapping (applied to

a group of 15 children and adolescents

who have participated in the project in a

principales resultados del proyecto

estrategia de trabajo articulado entre la

Corporación Universitaria Minuto de

Primera de Familia, que busca

contribuir a la mitigación de las

problemáticas de tipo familiar y social

que aquejan a los habitantes de la

urbanización Valle del Sol del municipio

practice in social responsibility from the voice of students, interlocutors and children

and adolescents who participate in learning scenarios that enable the recognition of

transformation of families, territories and in general of the various contexts in which

Cundinamarca, where the project was developed in 2014, is also presented.

Finally, it shows how UNIMINUTO has conceived the link to this project as a possibility

of transformation of communities in vulnerable conditions, in compliance with its

institutional mission.

alternative solution to these needs, the national government launched the housing

project Urbanización Valle del Sol, built to generate free housing solutions for

vulnerable families who were victims of the devastating winter wave of April 2011.

In total, 608 housing units were delivered to families belonging to socioeconomic

in its document Technical and Administrative Guidelines Modalidad mi Familia, is of

the extended type, i.e. a kinship structure living in the same place "where in addition

to the conjugal and/or filial nucleus there are other relatives" (ICBF, 2019, p. 8). One

educational level in a higher percentage basic primary education, followed by

unfinished basic secondary education and in a few cases, technical or technological

studies. In relation to children and adolescents, they are linked to formal education at

income of the families is scarce, given that the adult population is mainly engaged in

informal labor activities, which increases their degree of social and economic

vulnerability as one of the most latent problems, added to the lack of social public

instance of the municipality, establishes as one of its bets the development of the

Comisarit@s project, seeking to strengthen the citizenship skills of children and

problems associated with coexistence, common crime, domestic violence, intolerance,

marginalization and even invisible borders, which refer to boundaries created by

groups "in order to establish dominion over a special territory" (Morales, 2016, p. 25).

Given the territorial presence of the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

UNIMINUTO with the Regional Center Girardot - Rectoría Cundinamarca and in

coherence with the Social Projection Policy, once the scope of the project was

recognized, the formalization of an alliance with the entity was managed, in order to

ensure the comprehensive development of children and adolescents, it is imperative

to implement actions that recognize them as subjects holding prevalent rights

contemplating conditions of well-being and access to opportunities with equity

(National Policy on Childhood and Adolescence, 2018). Therefore, the implementation

of a scenario of citizen training and participation through playful activities, allows

recognizing and putting into practice the legitimate rights of these populations, being

essential to take into account their voice and experience to determine the sense with

advance actions for rights, safeguarding life and respecting differences, which in the

words of López (quoted by Contreras and Santana, 2016) makes it possible:

that the actors of the populations are the protagonists of their own development

processes, to that extent by identifying their own realities and contexts people and

entities are in charge of carrying out interaction to make decisions and propose

and problems, so that through their knowledge, participatory proposals can be

developed that contribute to overcoming the shortcomings of their context, understood

as a scenario that presents significant verbal and non-verbal messages.

The above is based on the networking proposed by Chadi (2000, p. 29), as a

community possibility to outline a social bet in which cultural characteristics converge

and therefore the identification of others, recognizing their nature as subjects with a

life history, for the management of collaborative actions that last over time. Dialogue

and interaction promoted in the community scenario:

determines the subject for his actions within a context; being then one of the most

transcendental in the life and development of the same, since it is from there that

their part, children are left alone in their homes and therefore exposed to latent dangers

(some families leave their children under lock and key, while others prefer to leave

them adrift, practically in the street), which leads to undesired behavior by the children.

This panorama is discouraging if we visualize children and adolescents in full

development, some of them even out of school, in a rough context due to the absence

of values, of recognition of rights and duties by the inhabitants of this community, in

the midst of constant quarrels, of daily social problems that generate a conflictive and

violent reality and therefore do not allow a healthy development.

While it is true that this is an undeniable reality in the country and that should be of

concern to various social entities, the question arises: does the development of

citizenship training projects in vulnerable communities help to reduce family and

contextual problems?

The objective is to demonstrate that the implementation of training projects in

vulnerable scenarios helps to mitigate social problems and represents a significant

contribution to social transformation and improvement of the quality of life in the

participating community.

Materials and methods

experience, retaking the practice as a source of theorization and production of

López and Sandoval (2006) state that the interview is a conversation between the

researcher and one or more subjects, delimited according to the purpose of the

structured group interview, which revolves around a topic proposed by the researcher"

approach. Diez (2012), illustrates that Social Cartography is:

A method of map construction, which tries to be collective, horizontal and participative,

female heads of household, total and partial abandonment of these children and

adolescents, lack of parenting guidelines... the number of difficulties is enormous.

In this sense, the relevance of the alliance established between UNIMINUTO and this

entity is recognized, which has allowed during the last years the development of

actions framed in the Social Projection policy, strengthening the life project of children

and adolescents, significantly improving family and social relationships that arise from

coexistence, and on the other hand, contributing to the process of integral formation of

The linking of students from different academic programs has facilitated the generation

of specific intervention proposals, among which the following stand out:

"From the pedagogy of values... to begin to change ideas by forming leaders... to

develop some ability within the children... allowing each one to take control over what

worked hard and not for a grade, they fall in love and put enthusiasm into it; when you

see an intern who speaks with the same passion that you feel for the project, he/she

will be an excellent professional" (CF), evidenced in the leadership assumed in the

dynamics of social mapping, where they accompanied the interpretation of the

dynamics of the territory, based on the analysis of the learning and contributions of the

The exercise of the internship has allowed rethinking the contribution made to the

beginning I was not used to it because I was only involved in social work, suddenly

when interacting with the engineers I have been pleasantly surprised, that they tell me

The generation of awareness regarding the dynamics of the population is a

transformation that allows recognizing needs such as the violation of rights by different

actors, a problem in which the students assume the role of mediators developing

activities in favor of the construction of a dignified living space. In their words: "the nice

and leave, but that you are going to leave something special, a seed... they know it is

In spite of the resistance presented at the beginning, the sense of co-responsibility has

working for a long time and if we stop, it would mean stopping a process that will bear

aware community... I will not say that it will happen overnight, it is a process and all

represents a significant contribution to social transformation and to the improvement

of the quality of life of children and adolescents who, as subjects of rights, in the future

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