Hello All,

Community Development, Empowerment, Humanitarianism, Social Work, Development Work, Social Entrepreneurship, Missions… people have used all kinds of words to describe how spent we our time in Daragaon.  Amanda and I spent most of the last 5 1/2 years living and working  there.  At first, my time was spent on building trails to link this remote village with the outside world.  Soon after, Amanda and I helped to start a school to educate the children of the region.  Eventually the realities of the health crisis in our area pushed us towards the realms of medicine and midwifery.  Sometimes our work involved cutting fodder for goats and constructing buildings. Sometimes our work involved delivering babies and treating meningitis.  Sometimes our work involved drinking tea around a kitchen fire and reading books to children.  We’ve done a lot of things in Daragaon but the goal in doing all those things was always the same…  to see love born into our little village.  Our methodology in our work is quite simple.  First, identify a perceived local need.  Second, empower the local community to tackle the issue.  Third, train and equip the local community. Fourth, hand over responsibility to the local community.   It became evident earlier this year that people were starting to become dependent on us and it was time for us to leave Daragaon.  Dependency is the antithesis to what we’ve worked for.

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