Thankful Hands: Our Ten-Year Chronicle

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is the ability to generate transformations POWER Power and move actions. When leaders gain power,

10 WORDS THAT DEFINE US leader is part of the support that leverages the LEADERSHIP Achanges in a society. Building leadership involves expanding knowledge, tools, and possibilities for more people to move the world and take the necessary steps to transform their environment in a positive way. A leader reaches out and guides. A leader believes in the power of others and in collective power. Leadership has been Visible Hand’s greatest bet.

they also gain the advocacy to transform their environment and their community. Human power, contrary to that of nature, arises from reflection on the common welfare and has one purpose: to serve others so that the members of their community evolve. The fact that power is disfigured and generates inequity or exclusion forces us to reinvent it from the leadership. Power is what the peripheral regions have gained in the last ten years.

The most common way people give up their power is to think they don’t have any. Alice Walker Jr

At the root of it all, leading is serving. It is meeting the needs of a group of people, ensuring their safety and give them the support they need to grow. A true leader transcends individual interests - whether political or personal - and gives priority to the human beings in his or her care. Mata Amina

TRANSFORMATION

Identical with change, transformation is the challenge of taking the elements that we have at hand to do something new with them. There is no element of nature that is not transformed in its growth process: the seeds make it into trees, the continents into changing geographies, the molecules into chemical elements. The transformations generate breaks with previous molds, but they are necessary for evolution. Leaders transform realities.

Changes will not come if we wait for someone else to make them or at another time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek. Barack Obama 8

is the absence of conflict. If peace is conceived PEACE Peace as a concept grounded in the territory and its daily

reality, to speak of peace in the Pacific, a region that concentrates 125 municipalities critical to the post-conflict, is to speak of an issue that many still do not know and that its inhabitants find more symbolic than real. A peace that does not have the territories or local leaderships is an exclusive peace. In this region, plagued by unlawfulness and the historical neglect of the State, peace is a fundamental structural issue. Therefore, it must emerge as a bet of active citizens, actors for territorial peace, who clearly propose to the government and international cooperation the priority lines to build local strategies to achieve it.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr


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