We have created this web book to share with others some of the things that we have been doing.
Community development is about taking back one's power to name and create one's world.
United Nations, 1955. Community development is a process of empowering individuals, groups and communities to collectively shape their environments and take control of their own destinies for the benefit of the whole community. A community development process can lead to better health care, better education for everyone, higher income, or more specific goals such as a new community hall or a successful crafts co-operative. It almost always involves an improvement of the communication and decision-making apparatus in the community. And it always involves people learning things they didn't know before about themselves, about their community or about technical matters important to the further growth of the community.