Liga feminina comunitária do Jardim São Cristóvão: da criação às relações sociais e políticas nas décadas de 1980 e 1990

Abstract

This work brings together a succinct approach to the Liga Feminina do Jardim São Cristóvão, its initial steps in the years 1985 to 1995. As a result of a coalition of women willing to carry out voluntary work for their community, they invested their strength in creating a group that would create and manage the Lar Samaritano Health Center and the Snow White Kindergarten Community School. Using the context of the country’s redemocratization after the civil-military dictatorship implemented in 1964, briefly covering some demonstrations by women in the various segments and relations of power and organization, this work will describe a line of significant advances in the achievement of civil rights, after the strong participation of women in this process. Showing the due protagonism and importance of civil movements organized by women’s groups and neighborhood institutions of a community nature, as an attempt to establish the rights recently achieved after redemocratization without, however, idly waiting for public policies coming from the public sector. Dedicating a reflection on women’s volunteering in peripheral organizations, in search of providing public services absent from their communities, in a charismatic attempt to give voice to this nature of events, this monograph will invite us to the imagery of oral history described in a parallel way with documents and figures of great relevance, allowing us to visualize the process of adaptation and consolidation of an important non-profit institution that has made and continues to make great improvements in its actions. Reporting its links with other institutions, thus forming a regional cooperation network that, in its localities, presents the most distinctive aspect of the peculiar assistance of its activities, humanism. In addition to describing a scenario of daily difficulties that served as a provocation for the uprising of people who did not accept the harsh reality found in the Jardim São Cristóvão neighborhood.