On a daily basis I hear people, myself included, ask questions revolving around development. Is our country making headway in terms of development? Is it going to take us long before we can be seen as a developed country? In all fairness, I find those two questions irrelevant. However, if I had to answer the [...]

Among the common challenges people in underdeveloped communities face on a constant basis are the following: Limited financial resources Lack of facilities and amenities Lack of management and leadership skills Negative competition instead of co-operation among community members Weak institutions unable to shape and direct people`s lives, especially young people

There is no doubt that we need money in our communities to make people`s lives better. But what we need even more of are viable plans and skills to identify and develop talent to play leadership roles. The foundation for future success through people must be laid in communities by communities themselves.

One of the greatest challenges faced by struggling communities in our society is to ensure that their youth studying at tertiary institutions remain loyal to their communities and maintain contact to provide knowledge and direction.

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Welcome to our new website. It will allow us to easily communicate with all of our readers. Among other things, we hope to use the website space to make our humble contribution towards the process of creating a knowledge and competency based society through constructive conversations with our readers.