Community education needs an understanding about the community as a prerequisite. Therefore, certain basics to deal with the community are discussed here for the benefit of community educators. Initially it is necessary for community workers to learn about what the community consists of? This unit provides a knowledge about the community and presents few guidelines as to how to develop good relationships with people in the community and skills to work with them. Once these skills are obtained by the community workers, the further task of analysing problems of the community and developing a plan of action and evaluating the same is possible and easy. For these tasks of the community worker, important information is detailed. Thus, this Unit provides enough background to the community workers for making their tasks easier in the field.
Objectives
After studying this unit, you will be able to:
- discuss how to develop good relations with people in the community
- explain how to help people in the community organize themselves in order to solve problems
- describe how to cooperate with other community workers in the community
- identify sources of information about the community, and
- discuss how to help the community recognize chief nutrition and health problems and causative factors responsible
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