Community Involvement
Sitting through a lessons learnt workshop of EHA HIV AIDS Project (Project Orchid) it was heartening to know that their involvement has led to empowering many marginalized communities. How does a Christian Community involvement – the ideal - should look like? Our role as individuals and organizations would be to facilitate people to “ come together ” or “ community building ” in communities. Most of the communities though there are various groups, there is no actual feeling of togetherness or community. This building of relationships and community creation has to be an on-going work and process till communities become “ caring ” and “ compassionate ” with each other. This happens only through on going “ capacity building ” both for coming together and taking up specific issues of concern as they identify. As we interact with communities, we need to cover “critical mass ” and key groups who need to be catered to. The coverage has to be such that, key indicators of health and or de