| Community Capacity Building |
If your congregation values social action and poverty alleviation, consider supporting a Unitarian Universalist community development program. UUPCC has an established program that helps communities help themselves through planning and action. Easy to use tools and local facilitators help communities identify strengths, design action plans and locate resources to solve basic needs, alleviate poverty and strengthen community development. Individuals, groups and congregations can provide the partnership to help identify resources and support the planning and project phases. You can read actual case studies on our website and UUPCC-trained facilitators have helped communities in India, the Philippines and Romania use this process to identify and tackle community needs such as access to health care and schools, clean water systems, roads and infrastructure, agricultural programs, and economic enhancement. Your group or church can be the catalyst that helps a community address their basic living needs, meet social needs and build a local economy. You will be connected with a community from the beginning of the process and stay with them through the action phase (about five years.) Your group/ congregation will provide the funding to support the facilitation team through the initial community workshop. You can send representatives to observe and support this exciting part of the process. You would then provide encouragement, follow-up and potentially some financial support for their action plans. You will help identify other resources in their country with help from UUPCC developed resource guides. To read more on the specific projects please click on the links below. Download our 12 page full color brochure on Community Capacity Building Mato Bato: Solving a Water Problem On Negros Island Through Community Action Nyiko Valley Assessment Report (English) Nyiko Valley Assessment Report (Hungarian) Felsorakos Community Capacity Building Assessment (English) Felsorakos Community Capacity Building Assessment (Hungarian) Planting Seeds: Community Capacity Building in Arkos Abasfalva Community Planning Workshop (Hungarian) Abasfalva Community Planning Workshop (English)
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