This complementary project, funded by AHRC GCRF Changing the Story, supports young people as co-researchers in the realization of sustainable ‘4 Corners’ through the activities of research and practice designed to strengthen your abilities and generate more community involvement and initial funding. The project aims to show the best practices in the support of social innovation and entrepreneurial activities of young people, and highlights the implications for the policies of the top-level to the global level. The project includes a series of workshops (online and face-to-face) with young co-investigators (on topics such as financial planning, organizational skills, gender and new masculinities) and a web seminar international.
Chocó is one of the Colombian departments most affected by the difficulty in access to education, high school dropouts, poverty, crime and violence. Project 4 Corners was conceived as a community project to address the problems of the economic precariousness of the families. The project considers the dynamics within families and seeks to address the needs and interests of each member and seeks to involve them in each one of the components or corners to generate economic activities, recreational, cultural, and collaborative within each family and community. The projects revolve around the Yemayá and each of the other corners generates revenue to support that project. The project is expected to create a network of mutual support, repair the social fabric and provide economic opportunities for the families in this territory.
As part of the process, there were a series of audio-visual contents that have as main objective, visible to the young people involved in the project What is the Truth as active individuals in the construction of the territory and to make it possible from this exercise audiovisual, the generation of networks between new organizations, collectives, young people and community who wish to be linked to the processes developed by the group of co-researchers. These scenarios collective meeting generate opportunities for collaborative work between various actors that inhabit Quibdó, promoted from the creativity, the associativity and the empathy of concrete actions for the reduction of exclusionary practices or violent that historically marked the relations between neighborhoods and social groups.
As mentioned the project What the Truth is allowed to generate meeting spaces for the decline of violence, the empowerment of the youth co-researchers as active actors, critics, and more goal-directed in the transformation of their territory and the exploration of the arts and music as a language and a methodology effective for the call of the community in general, able to generate reflections and meeting spaces for the construction of territories peaceful and self-sustainable.
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