The family financial planning as an empowering strategy to an economically vulnerable community

Abstract

The Integrated and Sustainable Territory Development (ISTD) program is an experience from the Socio-Environmental Fund from the bank Caixa Econômica Federal performed in the Brazilian territory which has the objective of promoting the integrated and sustainable development of a territory and the subjects who are in it. It’s about families in social vulnerability situation, with low income, low education and also a great number of people with disabilities. Ideologically, the whole project was realized from the process of dialogicity in the collective, participative and democratic ambits. During the implementation of the workshop, we made an evaluation with the participants and thereafter, evaluated possible changes and transformations in the community life from the project beginning. The results pointed a double process about learning and transformation between the community and the university. The dynamic of the activity, with active participation from the inhabitants made possible to the generated empowerment to be replicated both in their families and in the social groups in which they participated. Residents not only were informed, but became informers.