Carisma vicentino y cambio sistémico: camino hacia la eudaimonía en el barrio Brisas del Guatiquía, Comuna 3 (Villavicencio-Meta)

Abstract

The promotion, protection, and defense of human rights constitute the fundamental paths to guaranteeing their full exercise, and are considered a set of systematic tasks that complement each other. This suggests that emphasizing any of the three, in one way or another, affects the others. This research has left its mark, above all, on the path of promoting human rights. The terms ethics, "human dignity," "human flourishing," "poverty," "vincentian charisma," and "systemic change," among others, with the intention of embracing them as a single whole, inspired the idea of conducting work with an inductive approach. To this end, in May 2022, a social group was founded in the Brisas del Guatiquía neighborhood, Commune 3, in the municipality of Villavicencio, called Eudaimonía. After three years of group experience, seeking to respond ethically, critically, and creatively to the most urgent needs of the neighborhood community, significant changes can now be noted, which positively qualify the three purposes captured in this work: working from a place of recognition of the other not as a problem to be solved, but as a mystery to be embodied; working to care for the other with the strategy of systemic change, which calls for comprehensively considering acts of justice and solidarity; and highlighting the concrete actions that have been deployed to confirm that if we want to impact human flourishing in an impoverished reality, we must work with an ethical approach and systemic strategy.