This article pictures the way perused and the developed activities to discuss the situation of the soap stone handcraft in the Santa Rita de Ouro Preto community, its problems and possible alternatives raising the importance of the participative methodologies in this kind of performance. This work can be considered a continuity of other study realized before in this community that gave the relative difficulty to economical sustentability and cases of diseases caused by work related to the activity. In search of solutions to this problems, participative methodologies was used, once the legitimate the results obtained, practicing the reflection of the population about its reality and joined search of solution.
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