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1. A typical farmers house in Ipongo area. For a family of 8, a minimum of 12 bags x 90 kg of maize per year is needed. However, before ICA started working in the community, there was scarcity of food in this area. Especially in the lean months of January - February. 2. The water source of Ipongo river, which supplies water throughout the year. The amazing thing is that there is more water during dry season than rainy season. 3. There are lots of trees in Ipongo area. Since these trees conserve water, protect soil erosion and improve fertility, ICA advises farmers not to log them. 4. A village road in Ipongo area. ICA staff ride motor-bikes on this road covering 12,000 people, radius of 41 km, to organize the community, carry out field visits and conduct several trainings. 5. The only clinic in Ipongo. Every Tuesday underweight children come to the clinic to eat porridge mixed with groundnut flour, which is rich in protein. Since ICA has promoted planting groundnuts, people have become aware of the importance of food legumes. 6. Ipongo is located next to Lukanga swamps. Some villagers earn their living by catching fish. Community organization 7. ICA office and house of Ipongo area. Basically 2 ICA staff stay here and visit an average of 50 farmers per day. ICA has built a firm trust with farmers and have empowered them to develop their community by themselves. 8. Farmers attending leadership training. After, leadership capacity building, explanation of clubs, committee members, farmer

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GHDP is located in the Ghoramara Shelter Project area, which is home to approximately 230 families s or 1,500 people s who have been displaced and lost their land due to flooding. ICA Bangladesh is assessing the needs of the local community in order to plan visioning and action workshops. It has established school facilities, supplies, and teachers for 30 children who previously had no access to primary education, provided food and material aid, and made the access to safe drinking water possible. Initiated an integrated community development program in Chandpur District. ICA Bangladeshs community programs are mostly implemented in the village of Ghoramara Asrayan Prokalpa in Chandpur District, which is home to approximately 230 families, or 1500 people, who have been displaced and lost their land due to flooding and riverbank erosion. The ICA Ghoramara Human Development Program includes the following components in 2004-2006: Needs Assessment and Planning; Primary Education; Water and Sanitation; Food and Material Aid. In February 2008, Dhaka ICA Ghoramara introduced Dressmaking Training and Income Generation Project with 4 sewing machine for 18 disadvantaged women; Rickshaw for Employment Generation Project with 2 rickshaws and Water and Sanitation Project with two new tube-wells installed and old 8 repaired with partial support under the Working Gifts Program. Education for the Underprivileged Children Project Main aim is to provide the underprivileged children access to education, non-formal education is being provided and primary education is demanded for introduction, education materials and services are offered at free of cost, 45 children are currently enrolled. Provided school facilities, supplies, and teachers for children, who previously had no access to primary education Classes in Bangla, English, and Math, as well as sports and cultural events Constructed a school building Initiated primary schooling Dressmaking training and income generation for disadvantaged women project Women income generation activities through provision of dressmaking skills training and sewing machines. Village women and children support team is organized in the village and women are motivated and provided entrepreneurship capacity for based on their needs. Supply of safe water and sanitation facilities and environmental conservation project Safe water supply by installing new and repairing old tube-wells Due to repaired old tube wells and installed new wells, the village now has access to safe drinking water and related health problems have declined Rickshaw for the unemployed Project Employment generation for the unemployed through rickshaw Community mobilization Community awareness on HIV/AIDS and social mobilization (consciousness raising about health, disability, sanitation, cooperative, birth registration, organic farming, nationality, education, children rights, women rights) Special needs support project Special needs support through scholarship, aid and disaster relief (medical treatment, wedding of a girl or emergency, flood or cyclone relief aid) Distributed food and clothing to the villages neediest families, during Eid festivals. Community leadership development project Community leadership development through training and facilitated meetings, strategic and action planning and Self-help community groups (one for rickshaw and one for dressmaking) Needs Assessment and Planning Community-driven needs assessment and planning continued with visioning and action workshops s part of a process that has been ongoing since 2004 -Bangladesh

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1. Dairy cooperative business started- 55 farmers. 2. 400 Poultry chicks distributed to 20 families. 3. Multiple business training & Guidance for 10 days s 300 women participated. 4. Group business started s Candle making, papad, Incenses & washing powder- 22 women. Also we have taken 55 farmers twice to visit the Rahuri Agriculture College to study the new techniques of the advance farming and agriculture. Cooperative Dairy Scheme A Dairy cooperative have been registered with 50 members. The farmers are taking efforts to increase the milk production with use of good quality grass to the animals. For that they need to use irrigation water to irrigate the land where the animals can eat the grass. They have also constructed the centre to store the milk. The milk container with cold storage has also provided and now currently about 200 litters of milk is collected and sold every day to Katraj Cooperative Dairy in Pune. 20 new families are being assisted through dairy by purchasing crossbred cows. Many new Dairy proposals are being processed through banks also. Animal husbandry camp was arranged to educate farmers regarding animal care and dairy management. To provide other income source to the farmers we have given 400 chicks to 20 families to start poultry business. It was helpful to increase their income level. Also provided multiple business training and guidance for 10 days to 300 women and it was beneficial to all of them. ASmall Saving Groups has started some small business from their funds such as candle making, papad making, incenses and washing powder etc. In the beginning 22 women started in groups.

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A little town in Tamil Nadu, India, is attracting a new kind of traveller s the volunteer tourist. Instead of lazing on the beach, shopping or touring historical sites, many of the visitors to Auroville, 160 km south of Chennai, spend their time working on the earths environmental problems. The streets of the town are filled with people from all over the world involved in projects ranging from reforestation to sustainable farming. Auroville was set up by the followers of the late Indian philosopher Aurobindo with the backing of the Indian government. The universal town has a population of about 2,000 people from more than 30 nations. Despite its other-worldly aura of spirituality, it is also involved in more practical and innovative pursuits. Prominent among them is its forestation work. The town lies in a region which was once a verdant Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) but is now a desert ridden with gullies and ravines. Since Auroville was founded in 1968, its residents have reforested more than 800 hectares of the townships 2,000 hectares of land and turned them into an oasis for many TDEF species of plants and animals. They have also set up organic farms to feed their community and in the process are pioneering in sustainable farming methods. Dharmalingham Vinasithamby.

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The Profound Journey Dialog(PJD) is about the deep journey of our lives. Utilizing universal, inclusive language and offering empowering images, the PJD offers tools for persons to care for themselves as they care for the world - from the local to the entire Earth community.
The PJD is an interactive event, building on four master journey images. Consisting of brief presentations, large and small group dialog, meal conversations, time for personal reflection, short contextual readings, and secular-spiritual rituals, the four sessions can be exhilarating, intense, transforming and celebrative.
The Profound Journey Dialog reiterates the underpinnings of the various methods of courses of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. These methods are used in groups all over the globe.
The Profound Journey Dialog is a recasting of the foundational understandings of the Institute of Cultural Affairs that have motivated thousands to volunteer in efforts around the world, helping to transform lives and communities for over 40 years.

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The Learning Basket parenting series is a series of two-hour sessions for parents of infants and toddlers that emphasize nurturing the learning potential of both children and adults.  The Learning Basket materials were developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with Proliteracy Worldwide.  The materials include a literacy manual, Parents are Teachers; the Play to Learn activity book which includes over 100 developmentally appropriate parent and child activities; and a hand-woven basket containing 18 objects, which complement the activities in the Play to Learn book.
Each interactive session is designed to draw forth the involvement and encourage the leadership of the participating parents.  The sessions are designed around the understanding that functional literacy involves developing competence in the use of the foundational skills of reading, writing, and voicing ideas and opinions.  In addition to these foundational skills the model emphasizes developing confidence in one’s own cultural values and practices; the capacity to do critical thinking and problem solving; and the ability to take on responsibility to put ideas into action.  Sessions are guided by Learning Basket parent session guides who employ an interactive teaching strategy based on the learning philosophy of Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles and Carl Rogers (1961); and drawing from the research of Taylor, Marienau, and Fidler (2000),  Belenky, Bond, and Weinstock(1997) Packard (2003), and others.
The sessions are designed around the theme of parenting and child development.  In each session, participants engage in and lead conversations on themes in the Parents are Teachers literacy manual.  In addition, session guides present key information about the effect of play on the development of the learning capacity of young children.  Parents and guides also demonstrate play activities using the Play to Learn activity book; and each session includes play time with the children.  Parents earn the objects in the Learning Basket through their attendance at each session.

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1.WATER LTID has helped Ngomano Community reduce the distance to water points for 180 households from 5kms to 2kms by construction of sub surface dams which serves as a great water reservoir to Ngomano Community.
5. 2.FOOD SECURITY: LTID has improved access to food for Ngomano Location from one meal per day to three meals throughout the year. This has been achieved by trainings offered to the community on dry land farming methods, provision of drought tolerant food crop seeds,farmers have been involved in improved poultry rearing and improved goat rearing.
6. 3.HIV and AIDS. LTID has been offering HIV and AIDS prevention education training to Ngomano Community. In addition LTID facilitates access to Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services through mobile VCTs. Those people living with HIV have been trained on Positive self management and are taking charge of their health by living positively. 
4.SELF HELP GROUPS. Village savings and Loaning Association (VSLA) through self help groups in each village has given the women voice and power to manage their saving by LTID. All the household basic needs are catered for at the self- help group level.30 self help groups have been established in Ngomano Location.
8. LTID distributes 30 male goats to 15groups in Ngomano Location. The goats are meant for Local goats upgrading. LTID distributes Ken brow chicken to Ngomano Community.