As flores do bairro rural Peroba do município de Itajubá (MG) falam sobre experiências vividas em projetos de extensão.

Abstract

This research is contained in a set of university extension projects that were carried out and articulated by Núcleo de Pesquisa, Extensão e apoio à Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Rural – Núcleo Travessia and their partnerships that, with women rural from the rural neighborhood Peroba of the municipality of Itajubá-MG, favored an interdisciplinary discussion about the University Extension's commitment to improving the living conditions of rural women in the context of family farming. Considering the condition of women from the rural neighborhood Peroba of depreciation and invisibility in the activities they carry out in the domestic and public space, the problem of the labor that resides in the family composition and that is intensified in the local reality in which the neighborhood suffers from lack of essentials public services, we seek to study if the actuation of university extension promoted if the actuation of university extension promoted improved in their conditions life of the women rural form the rural neighborhood Peroba that participated of two extension projects realized in the years 2018 e 2019 in specific edicts of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais - IFSULDEMINAS. The methodology was carried out by a qualitative investigation of interpretative nature that a cyclic and transversal way per passed by several interdisciplinary areas and used the technique of participatory research, observation, conversation, and semi-structured interviews. In the final reach of this research, we found that university extension actions did not obtain expressive changes in the domestic space because the heavy of the household chores remained under women shoulders and with their participation in the meetings during the years 2018 to 2019 the routine intensified. Other side we found that although relationships prevailed at the axiom of the sexual division of labor, the extension projects encouraged women to transform thinking and knowledge in respect of the condition of devaluation and subjection they were within the family composition. In public space, we identified that have been occurred changes in the reality of women from the rural neighborhood Peroba because the socialization spaces that were provided became a guiding tool for selfreflection and for the development of individual and collective independence. We conclude that the identified changes in the domestic and public spaces and the implications of the extension’s projects with the women's group "Mãos que cultivam carinho" contributed to the development of women's autonomy, which constituted a directive and viable action for the process, individual and collective, of improvement living conditions of women in the rural neighborhood of Peroba. Finally, considering the impacts of the whole order generated in society coming by covid-19, we recommend that future research seek to advance in the discussion of under which circumstances the university extension is present or not due the countless difficulties that woman face in the field of family farming.