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• "Am I willing to give my time and interest to help community members to solve their problems themselves?"
• "Can I behave myself in such a way that the people will not see me as boasting?"
• "Can I work in the settlement while avoiding political and factional disputes?"
• "Can I keep up the interest of the people?"
• "Am I willing to work in such a way that they will say they did it themselves?"
• "Do I have enough elementary technical knowledge –in agriculture, appropriate technology, construction, disability, roads, nutrition, social work, soil conservation, hygiene, water– to assist community members to analyse their own problems?"
• "Am I willing to keep from being discouraged when many things go differently from the way I expected?"

• To call community meetings so as to:
  • brief all members on correct information related to community self reliance; and
  • organize and arrange the provision of all resources (human and materiel) needed for community actions;
• To stimulate community members to participate in their own community's desired development actions;
• To engage in activities that will promote increased community effectiveness, capacity, self reliance, and empowerment;
• To ensure that all information is accurate and correctly interpreted;
• To actively counteract incorrect information, especially that which causes unrealistic expectations, and later disappointment and discouragement;
• To encourage and praise community members, confirming that they have the ability to develop themselves;
• To ensure that every decision about what activities the community will undertake, is the choice of the whole community, not just a few (powerful) community leaders;
• To ensure that the vulnerable are heard in community decisions: including women, youth, disabled, ethnic minorities, the weak and disenfranchised;
• To promote and encourage unity in the community, unity of purpose, of goal and of action; actively counteracting forces of community disunity prejudice, bigotry, racism, sexism, clanism, patronage, caste, class;
• To come together frequently with other mobilizers to share experiences, mutually solve common problems, and to improve skills of social animation and community management;
• To assist in the learning of community management skills and techniques by community leaders and members.

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