Social work and university extension: work experience linked tothe project "Citizenship and promotion of Human Rights"

Experiencia de trabajo vinculada al proyecto “Ciudadanía y promoción de Derechos Humanos”

Abstract

Social work develops its intervention in multiple areas and spaces. In this paper we
propose to describe and analyze the work carried out within the framework of the
university extension project “Citizenship and Promotion of Human Rights” based in the
Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Work of the National University of Mar del Plata.
This project proposes to contribute to strengthening the construction of citizenship
and the promotion of human rights through favoring access and democratization of
information in the different neighborhoods that make up the northern area of Mar del
Plata, anchored in the North University Extension Center. This proposal, conceived and
projected at the end of 2022, is challenged in the current national context, and invites
us to put in tension what we have been recognizing as conquered rights. The experience
of the different members in territorial work led us to identify the existence of a huge
number of subjects, families and groups that have difficulties in managing their social
demands and accessing institutions in order to guarantee rights. In this sense, one
of the main strategies used has been intersectoral and inter-institutional joint work, implementing the collective mapping of social rights in different instances of workshops, talks and other dissemination activities, articulated together with different territorial social actors. Moreover, in contexts such as the current one, of systematic advance of neoliberal policies, we aspire that the actions implemented allow the subjects to generate tools for the transformation of the social processes they are going through, through the realization of the full exercise of their human rights.