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Caracterización de unidades de negocio barrio Chuniza – Usme

Resumen

The Pontifical Javeriana University had been working with the community of the town of Usme and especially with the community of artisans who belong to the network of women entrepreneurs with the Prosofi project. In the first half of 2018, the Cooperative University of Colombia began its work with this community, which has expressed its interest in continuing to participate in the projects offered by these universities as part of its personal, labor and economic growth. During the work carried out by the students of the Cooperative University together with the ladies who attend punctually on Saturdays to receive their training on issues related to associativity, it has been shown that this group of artisan women has a degree of leadership exercised by the majority of the six representatives of the group and this is an important factor that would facilitate the formation of a cooperative based on the solidarity economy. Given that the work of artisans is also constant, it could be seen as another point in favor; However, not all women who make up this network have had the same disposition and time; since their products do not have the same acceptance in the market and this has also discouraged the ladies who have actively participated in the activities of Redemor. The community work has been carried out on Saturdays with six leading representatives of the network, who are responsible for disseminating the information to the other members of the network through the WhatsApp group created by them, in order to achieve in the future a strategy based on partnering and that benefits all the women that make up this group of artisans. Additionally, the students will be in charge of creating the mission and vision of the Redemor network, since this group of artisans does not have the design of these two products for their work group and in the same way the training on Solidarity Economy is carried out through thematic and recreational workshops in order to facilitate their interpretation as stated by artisan women.