Strengthening People. Strengthening Villages.
Supporting self-reliance, dignity and participation in rural communities through connected social development initiatives.
Stronger Communities Through Connected Development
The Trust’s community development direction brings together education, skills, employment, sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship, traditional knowledge, culture and participation to strengthen rural communities.
Building the Conditions for Self-Reliance
Knowledge & Education
Expanding learning, reading, academic development and access to useful knowledge.
Skills & Employment
Strengthening practical vocational skills and employment-oriented capability.
Sustainable Agriculture
Supporting sustainable and organic agriculture, productive resources and value addition.
Rural Enterprise
Encouraging village-based enterprise and traditional occupations as livelihood opportunities.
Culture & Tradition
Preserving music, traditional knowledge, indigenous sports and rural cultural practices.
Participation
Encouraging people and communities to participate actively in their own development.
Connecting Knowledge With Capability and Opportunity
Sustainable rural development requires more than financial assistance. It requires knowledge, skills, opportunities, productive resources and community participation.
The Trust’s approach seeks to connect learning with livelihood, traditional skills with modern technology and local resources with new opportunities.
A practical direction for strengthening people and communities.
Community Development Through Multiple Pathways
Community development is connected with the Trust’s wider areas of work.
People at the Centre of Development
The Trust’s institutional direction emphasises participation, dignity and self-reliance. Community-oriented initiatives are intended to create opportunities for people to learn, develop capability and participate constructively in local development.
Community Development as an Institutional Direction
The source material supports community development as a broad area of institutional focus. Specific projects, locations, beneficiaries, partnerships, budgets and completed outcomes should be added to this page only when formally confirmed by the Trust.
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