Four decades after its establishment, SERVOL continues to implement a number of community-based development and educational projects primarily because the socio-economic problems that led to its formation, such as poverty, sharp socio-economic inequalities, youth criminality or gang violence and drug abuse as well as the disintegration of family structures, high illiteracy rates among and lack of livelihood and educational opportunities for the poor majority, remain prevalent in the country today.
My work in the local community continued for several years before I left to work on the state level as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Association for Community Economic Development, served as the Co-Chair of the MidSouth Collaborative for Nonprofit Development, a Director of Programs for a faith-based nonprofit community development corporation, and as the Director of the Nonprofit Resource Center at a volunteer center.
HarVa, a start-up that focuses primarily on skill development, community-based farming and microfinance for the population of rural India.
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The New Options Project, in particular, seeks to build bridges to employers at alternative schools, community-based organizations and workforce development centers.
The Community Advantage program is open to mission-based lenders such as Community Development Financial Institutions, Certified Development Companies and nonprofit microlenders, which tend to target lower-income communities.
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Gerard Pantin, a Roman Catholic priest and Mr. Wes Hall, a Barbadian cricketer, to establish SERVOL. Since then, SERVOL has been implementing intergenerational, family and community-based life and vocational skills training, enterprise development, psychosocial counselling, educational and empowerment projects in disadvantaged and marginalised urban and rural communities.
Cloud-based communication, customer development, community building and financial applications help small businesses acquire and manage information quickly and strategically.
Zeenat Rahman is Deputy Director for the Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives at the Agency for International Development.
Overall, this indicates that in addition to empowering individuals, a community-based approach that offers opportunities literacy skills training and development has a strong and positive social impact which in turn lead to community development.
These are sites established by countries and recognized under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme (UNESCO-MAB) to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound science.
After the Voice of Afghan Women is officially inaugurated, it will go on air daily with educational, development-based and entertainment programmes of interest to the entire community.
The principal aim of these policy instruments was to promote development, social empowerment (poverty alleviation) and environmental conservation through participatory or community-based management and exploitation or utilisation of forests and forest resources.
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