Rol del trabajador social en procesos de empoderamiento de derechos de asistencia social a personas de escasos recursos de Machala

Abstract

Social assistance programs play a fundamental role in the development of society due to the structural changes it generates in the population, emphasizing the guarantee of the rights of people in general and priority attention groups. The present investigative work addresses the problem of poverty from the perspective of the empowerment of low-income people to their social assistance rights, suggesting an intervention proposal that allows the fulfillment of these rights in people and in this way determine a significant advance in their quality of life, based on the applied technique of the bibliographic review of indexed. It has been concluded that the Social Worker in the search for processes that provide alternative solutions to the empowerment of people with scarce economic resources plays a very important role, from the efforts to be made within its scope of professional intervention and through the different mechanisms of citizen participation and social assistance programs offered by the State in order to change the reality of this group of priority attention to improve their quality of life.