VILLAGE RESOURCES BASED COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

Community-Based Research among Marginalized HIV Populations: Issues of Support, Resources, and Empowerment

A research question was posed to us by a local HIV-resource organization interested in exploring the educational and service needs of those unreached. In order to properly address this inquiry, we developed a community-based participatory research by training peer-led volunteers to facilitate focus-group discussions within Aboriginal and refugees participants following an interview guide. We ga...

Grameen Foundation USA Village Phone – A Tool for Empowerment

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Infectious hepatitis in a village community.

Male and female patients progressed equally well. Those under 30 years of age and those whose asthma had lasted 20 years or less fared the best. The severity of asthma and the type of trigger also provided differences in response to hypnosis; mild cases and those with emotional triggers did best, but good responses were observed in the other categories. Patients who were easily hypnotized, thos...

Community Empowerment for Sustainable Development in Iran

Preface: " Poverty is not simply a matter of material deprivation. It is a matter of human dignity, justice, fundamental freedoms and basic human rights. " 1-UNESCO The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) development community has arrived at a critical point in its approach to the issue of poverty alleviation and its ideal of poverty eradication. Despite valiant efforts on the part of the gover...