Sunday 8 May 2016

WHY THE COMMUNITY? ZuCoDeCG ANSWERS.


WHY THE COMMUNITY?: ZuCoDeCG ANSWERS.
From the full name of ZuCoDeCG; through its vision and mission; to its objectives, the 'community' is clearly the focus. The question of "why the community" is an obvious expectation.
Here, ZuCoDeCG shares its working definition and understanding of a community. The rationale behind the interest in the community is also indicated.
What is a community?
A community is defined severally, though similarly. The similarity in these definitions are that a community is shared, and may either be geographical and /or other (by ethnicity, belief, profession, interest etc.). In appreciation of the similarity in the several definitions, ZuCoDeCG adopts a working definition: "A community is a geographical unit, locality or area inhabited by persons co-existing by a shared sense of belonging, and in a relation (or have the potential of a relation) beyond family, clan, ethnicity and/or religion".
Why the community?
ZuCoDeCG's interest in the community is founded on belief in the centrality of communities' welfare to national progress. This belief is also grounded on the understanding that a community is a multifaceted, basic socio-geographical environment of the individual. Thus the significance of a community in nurturing the individual (citizen).
ZuCoDeCG is unreservedly convinced that a better citizenry (needed for a better nation) well depends on the individual citizen's experiences and values as a member of a community. And therefore ZuCoDeCG commits itself to supporting community development by encouraging community self-support. Hopeful of a resulting self-sustaining Nation (Ghana).
THANK YOU! Suggestions are unrestrictively welcomed.