ABSTRACT
Carolyn Lehmann is a North American who worked for twenty years with the Chilean pobladores as a Maryknoll missioner and feminist educator: With Monica Hingston and Peggy Moran (from Australia and the United States, respectively), she established Casa Sofia in the dusty población of Pudahuel. Their goal was to meet the desperate need of poor urban women for literacy and mental health. In the following chapter; she situates these efforts in the context of Chile’s recent social history. Her beautiful description of the indomitable spirit of women who “live poverty” demonstrates that such women can respond positively to the difficult circumstances documented by Valdes and others.
