The article stems from a research exercise conducted with 6 community leaders Canas Gordas neighborhood of the city of Armenia, Colombia, belonging to organizational processes developed by the NGO World Vision. In it, he asked about the relationship of self-care and care of the other from the empowerment of women in the community context. For data collection qualitative research techniques were used, such as focus group and semi-structured interview. The study was based on three conceptual categories; caring for others from the perception of women and self-care in relation to political subjects, and this empowerment process was structured based on the analysis of the practices of women leaders, concluded that actions which emerge empowerment are evident elements comprising self-care and care of others as self-government and self-management in different spaces, interior and exterior. Similarly, expressions of empowerment, such as strengthening the power and ability of control and decision making in their contexts.