Description

Description of what Community development is

To address issues of development with in a community and hand in hand with this usual trend of massive poverty, a need has arisen to move away from social work service delivery in the rehabilitation of a community to prevention and development of that community. Developing human potential can be seen as one of the best investments a country, a city, a business etc.   could make for its own progress and continued existence.

Community Development does not happen over night, it’s a long term process with results only visible usually in a period from 3 to 5 years pending on the issue addressed. A school may be built to address the need for educational development to take place, but the school is a facet of the need – the real need could be to have adequate educational development for children in a area – the school building will only be a tool in a facet of fulfilling the needs to uplift the educational level of said community – results only visible in perhaps a 12 year period.

Community Development is not just seen as an “activity” that happens on a National level, it can be in a city, a school, a suburb, where ever the needs require the sustained change to ensure positive life quality growth. Contributors to help establish these changes or to maintain status quo where needed, are various.

Contributors in the field of community development can be:

Community development takes place on different levels and these facets are often used as tools in maintaining and or changing the social fabric of a community for the better good. Examples of the different fields are:

In summery Community development is a Social Investment within a community, however big or small, that focuses on providing creative solutions to ensure sustainable growth to unleash the full potential of a community.