More stories on social and economic development
The New Era Development Institute
seeks to provide students with skills to earn a living and impart a new
vision of community service. "Our product is basically a transformed
individual." (October-December 1997 / OC 9.3)
In striving to illuminate what it means to integrate
spiritual principles with economic development, the New Era Development
Institute (NEDI) has hit upon a simple but revealing exercise that can
be used almost anywhere in the world. (October-December
1997 / OC 9.3)
The “Hope for the Heart” project seeks not only to improve reading
and writing skills but also to instill the values needed to create a nonviolent
culture. (July-September 1997 / OC 9.2)
OMKOI DISTRICT, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand –
In a remote district, grassroots work by Thai Bahá'ís becomes
a catalyzing force in efforts to empower the Karen people. (April-June
1997 / OC 9.1)
Overlooked by the big
international agencies, microcredit is an economic innovation that can
greatly help to alleviate global poverty, say NGOs who recently held a
Summit-level meeting on the issue. (January-March 1997
/ OC 8.4)
Meeting in Rome, nations seek to build on the new international framework
set by other recent UN conferences. the decision-making process, however,
left some in the cold. (October-December 1996 /
OC 8.3)
Almost anywhere in
the world, the ecnomics of running small a rural hospital of any sophistication
requires a certain critical mass of paying patients -- and such a critical
mass is rarely to be found in rural areas. (October-December 1996 /
OC 8.3)
The technological
innovation behind the manually operated rock crusher is not one but many
things: clever design, a combined use of high and low technologies, and
all-important consultation with the target users. (July-September 1996
/ OC82)
UNITED NATIONS - Governments and international agencies concerned
with improving food security in Africa should support women farmers and
boost efforts to grow and process food locally, according to the Advocates
for African Food Security. (July-September 1996 / OC82)
A program that has granted small loans to more than a thousand
rural farmers is unique for its emphasis on training which seeks to promote
cooperation and a sense of service to the community at large. (April-June
1996 / OC81)
An innovative approach, using a curriculum adapted for country
life and delivered via NGOs, provides new opportunities for 15,000 in
rural Colombia. (January-March 1996 / OC74)
CALI, Colombia
- It is often said that some of the best new ideas come from outsiders.
Because they are not hemmed in by the traditions of a particular field
of study, they feel free to strike out in new directions. (January-March
1996 /OC74)
Active in more than 200 communities, a project to promote
vaccinations has also helped to build a new level of intersectoral and
interfaith collaboration - collaboration that has paid off by stimulating
the construction of latrines and helping create better access to clean
water. (January-March 1996 / OC74)
At the William Masethla Bahá'í Institute in Zambia, training
for volunteer health educators focuses on preventative care and service
to the entire community. (April-June 1995 / OC 7.1)
What is real development? Buses, cars and tractors or cooperation and
unity?
In Thailand, a home-grown project assists a neglected
people