TRANSFORMATIONAL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Empowering People to Transform Community
Our Involvement in social work is slightly different than other people. We believe in empowering the community for their transformation. That's why we call our social work initiative as Transformational Community Development (TCD). In this we address five important areas of the community. They are - water, food, education, income generation and wellness.
Each key area provides a foundation to achieve village-sustainability, and requires the community to take ownership in transforming their village.
What is Transformational Community Development?
Transformational Community Development (TCD)© is a process that helps villages transform themselves and break the cycle of extreme poverty. Through TCD, villages form sustainable development committees in five key areas and are guided by the 4L’s: Low Cost, Low Tech, Local Resources, and Local Leadership.
CORE ELEMENTS OF TCD
> LOW COST. LOW TECH. LOCAL RESOURCES. LOCAL LEADERSHIP.
> HAND UP NOT HAND OUT
> COMMITTEE-LED
> COACHING-BASED
> SUSTAINABLE EXIT WITHIN FIVE YEARS
Five Key Elements of TCD
TCD focuses on helping a community in these five development areas.
Water
Income Generation
Education
Wellness
Food
safe clean water for drinking, cooking and washing
resources for sustainable family income generation
primary level education for every girl and boy
viable, nutritional food to end chronic hunger and malnutrition
solutions for critical sanitation, disease-prevention, and home health
PROCESS FOR TCD
We select a village, survey it, and if suitable, start a seed project to build relationships with villagers.
After gaining trust, we form a committee of 5–7 people and train them to understand TCD and how to solve community problems.
The committee appoints one TCD volunteer for every 10 houses, and these volunteers are trained on their roles.
Volunteers receive weekly training on specific issues, which they then share with the families.
We stay for three years to support the community, so they are ready to identify problems and create local solutions on their own.
