Productividad en el corregimiento el Hormiguero-Cali: hacia un camino sostenible por medio de la creación y consolidación de unidades productivas

Abstract

El Hormiguero corregimiento is a population that has 7,500 inhabitants (according to population census of 2012 by JAC). The majority of the inhabitants earn their income from the extraction of sand from the Cauca river, in the work with sugarcane and a few employees in the paper mill (Papeles del Cauca), in this community matriarchy predominates and it is common to know families by mothers with 3, 4 to 5 children. Within the community there are great needs in terms of health, education, security, among other aspects, so the proposed formation of productive units seeks to transcend the training, qualification and development of them, with a view to projecting the Community of El Hormiguero corregimiento in a productive, economically sustainable community, providing them tools that allow them to face their reality, but finding in it the way to improve the quality of life and therefore that of their family, especially because most of the participants are mothers head of household with several children and do not have a fixed income, let alone a formal job, so they do not have social benefits, health services, which leads to employment or create alternative income with informal jobs such as street sales or businesses in their homes. If the organization of productive units is achieved, one can approach the reality that says Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006) in a thought that publishes El Heraldo de Venezuela Weekly: "when a woman gets returns for her activity, those who they benefit in the first place are their own children. " This could change the story in a community of a community forgotten by the Colombian state, but that dreams and fights for a different world, a sustainable world.