Guidelines for Community Workers

To get involved and working with community people, the community workers should know some points before they start any activities with them.

Work with the poor and not oppressed for them
We help realize them, analyze, action plan, implementation but never do those things for them. They may decline any suggestion from expert and any mistakes may happen eventually. Development comes directly from the people’s understanding over their needs and rights. Therefore they must decide on major issues to be addressed and basic needs including approaches.

Development is an awakening process
The people start awakening and know their rights to live as human beings. Without this move, the facilitators achieve less development to community. The people have brains and experiences so we need to display their strength and listen to their recommendation as well.

Let the people grow
Development is to enable people be aware themselves as important resources to build their future. Development is an experience of freedom on whatever people select to practice. There will bring them dignity and self-esteem. Working with people’s energy and constant progress, the effort of development is needed.

Build up the people’s solidarity
Development takes place whenever we empowered people to do thing with solidarity. They can live together in harmony, establishing relationship with others, help one another and get rid of selfishness. If everywhere at the same time we worked together, cooperatively and simultaneously, we could pool all our resources, we would encourage one another as we worked, we could work better, and we would the sooner reach our development goals.

Build up the people’s organization
It is necessarily for people to implement actions freely, and keep their community away oppression or exploitation. Keep in touch with other groups and community facilitators in ways of intensive advocacy for new society. 

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