María Candelaria Rodríguez, an Indigenous woman from the cooperative group Yomol A´tel in Chiapas, Mexico, shares with us how, through financial education, women are strengthening their economic independence and making decisions about their lives with greater confidence. Learning to manage resources, save, and plan is also a way of caring for life and opening paths of dignity. From their territories, women continue to show that shared knowledge transforms realities. This testimony is an invitation to believe in collective strength, in organization, and in the economy as a tool for equity.
With the testimony of María Candelaria Rodríguez, we launch a series of videos on “Rural Women and Alternative Economies in Latin America,” the result of an exchange of experiences promoted by the Red Comparte in October 2025 at the Instituto Mayor Campesino (IMCA) in Buga, Colombia. This initiative responds to the commitment to Characteristic 3 of the Red Comparte, which promotes gender equity and the empowerment of women from a feminist perspective.