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Community
Development
We provide support for community-based groups and organizations,
group action, identification of community needs and the development
of services and projects.
- Promote a healthy community through
the empowerment and participation of community members
- Initiate
community projects and/or programs around health, poverty,
economic
- Move towards local, social and political action,
whether by mobilizing the community or by a community
advocacy approach
in policy-making or by bringing policy-makers and community
members together to address common concerns
- Aim at facilitating
community groups and individuals to "empower
themselves" in focusing on improving the collective
health of groups who are less healthy and less privileged.
Benefits:
- Community members know best what
their own needs are. With their participation, change is
likely to be more effective,
ongoing and meaningful.
- Coming together to address common
interests and problem solving can be health-enhancing.
For many community members it’s
a source of social support, provides an opportunity
to learn new skills and gain more control over their lives.
- Collectively, it can strengthen individual’s sense
of belonging to their community.
- Many communities work
together to tackle shared issues or concerns. This process
allows communities to become more
self-reliant.
- A community gains more control over the factors
affecting health, policies and politics that touch their
individual
and community life.
Community Development Services and initiatives include
the following:
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