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by Karim Sahyoun. The idea of development is to bring about positive, sustainable change. Development should not be seen as something new to a community, brought in by outside organisations. Rather, it is an ongoing process which may lead to improvements in physical, emotional and spiritual well-being and which gives people encouragement and confidence to realise their potential.
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by Robert Lambert. Lifting and carrying water in buckets or cans to irrigate crops is very hard work and can take a lot of time. In Zimbabwe, some families spend up to 200 hours per month on this exhausting job. This can mean three to four hours every day for two or three people in the family. The only alternative presently available is a diesel or petrol pump - out of reach of most small farmers because of the high cost, the problems in obtaining fuel and spare parts and the ...
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by Ian Wallace. An Animator may be seen as a kind of bridge – a link between the community and outside groups such as government, research stations, universities and development agencies.
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There are several important changes in a woman’s life that include...
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Income generation and co-operatives. Read 2 Thessalonians 3:6–13. The apostle Paul was deeply troubled by a report that some members of the church at Thessalonica were idle without doing any work, but were active in a wrong way, for example, by interfering in other people’s business (v 11). This created a bad influence in the community which eventually had to take on the burden of providing for such idlers (1Thess 4:2). So Paul, using himself and his friends as models, encourages the ...
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by Dr Thomas Kroeck. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) methods can be very helpful as a way of collecting information for planning and setting up development projects. They have a number of advantages over formal surveys.
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Step-by-step instructions for making soap from palm oil
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Considers what we can learn from leaders in the Bible, with questions and Bible references
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Discusses how supporting and training leaders is a key part of leadership
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Looks at how Jesus' leadership was expressed through care for others
