Once I started to collaborate with HAP I was given the opportunity to attend several trainings on health management and other topics. Thanks to these, I learned what it meant to be a leader and what I should do to show people that we, women, are serious about our work and their skepticism is ill-founded. I understood the weak me and the strong me and I knew where I had to improve. As a result, I felt the change in the perception of my work as a woman in the second meeting with the community and local government. They trusted me.