Word: self-help
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...devised a six-room house made of pre-cast concrete which costs less than $1300. The structure was designed for use in "self-help and mutual assistance programs," and can be assembled by eight unskilled workers in eight days
Julius jumped into his Land Rover and began beating through the bush. In flyblown Indian Ocean towns and sun-seared mud-hut villages in Chaggaland, he recruited new grass-roots leaders and urged participation in the self-help program...
...government's $250,000 investment in self-help had yielded an estimated $2,500,000 in product: 10,400 miles of roads, 166 clinics, 368 schools, 267 village halls, 308 clams and 515 wells. At one tiny village, a man dug up 500 ant-eaten pound notes and brought them to Nyerere, who promised to build a bank on the very spot...
What is needed is a new approach, or at very least an altered montage of present programs. The key to any such change lies in the neighborhood. If individuals within a community can be organized to deal with their own problems, if self-help can be encouraged, then cities might be better able to meet the giant challenges before them...
...Self-help programs should be stimulated by trained staff-workers...