Community Development Projects
Empowering Communities – Eradicating Poverty
Our Work
CDP Training Programme
The simple programme is targeted at the extremely poor and its purpose is to enable local communities to create a cohesive self-help program that will empower the individuals towards a better and healthier lifestyle.
It is based on the saying:
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
The aims are to:
1) break the dependency cycle
2) transform communities by getting themselves out of poverty
Community Development training is delivered in one day to community leaders and teaches them how to empower people and use local skills, knowledge and resources to create income generating projects.
Training is underpinned by community banking, which is the building block for successful and prosperous communities.
To help them create such communities, Leaders are provided with:
i) essential context and understanding for the potential Facilitator(s) so they can undertake the process successfully;
ii) explanation of the tools that the Facilitator will use to engage the community and collect their feedback; and
iii) a framework for assisting the Facilitator to coordinate the development of a plan, and the development and implementation of an action strategy.
Where a need is found for specific skills as projects are decided upon, training is provided by local professionals.
