We need a profession of Community Development. And we need to be more than community workers.
We are all contributing good work through community service, as community workers, but unless we put community development on the political and economic agenda, that work will be in a vacuum, applying band aids to problems.
Community Development is a partnership between communities, Community Development professionals, academia, elements of the media, and local and central government.
But someone has to start somewhere. Someone, or some group, has first of all to put community development on the agenda.
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