Community Development

In the begining of this year, theHTL ministry began launching out into our community development programme. After the htl process has been done in communities we than shift into looking at developing them physically. We believe in the wholistic development of a person, so it is not only developing them spiritually. Physical and mental is also important because than you are reaching out the whole person. So our communty development programme is headed by Mr Chuck MacCay a missionary from Australia. The ministry is also blessed by Dr. Ms Ana Spink who is a doctor by profession from Australia now works with the ministry as the Health Development Officer. This year we began with our community development in few communities. One of the strategy we use is called "Appropriate Technology" whereby we aware the community to use whatever they have available to develop themselves, e.g. they don't have to buy timber from the hardware store in town to built their houses with, if they have trees on their land - so all they need is to log their timbers e.t.c.
We also teach them to undertake projects in terms of Needs rather than Wants. If they were to priorities between road upgrading and drinking water - we help them to priorities drinking water. We also have taught the communities that they have to contribute towards community development if it was to succeed. They have to own the vision and it's not an outsider coming in to do development because when he/she leaves definately the project will not succeed. So they have to come up with what development needs to be done in their community and they have to contribute financially or any kind towards that and we(htl ministry) will guide them and also help them in whatever way but the community must be at the drivers seat.
This year we were able to built mudoven in few places. This mudovens were specially built in the interior of the nation. The ones that we have built have been a blessing to these communities because they are now baking bread in the bush and selling them to their community and the surrounding ones. It is generating funds into these communities, so it is no longer the spiritual but the physical has being developed.
Community development head Mr Chuck MacCay has also facilitated micro-finance training to these communities. Dr. Ana Spink has also facilitated some health awareness programme with a few communities. We are looking at engaging all the communities with our community development concept next year.

Pictured above is one of the mudoven made by our community development officers and every material used is provided by the community.