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Village Earth

New Online Training for Engineers Without Borders

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Since 2008, Village Earth has provided its tailored in-person training for student and professional chapters of Engineers Without Borders at colleges and universities across the country including UC Santa Barbara, Colorado State University, Rutgers, Princeton, Hope College, MSU, San Francisco and Portland. We are excited to announce a new online training opportunity for Student and Professional Chapters of Engineers Without Borders. Combining live face-to-face discussions with offline content you can complete on your own schedule, this course makes our powerful community mobilization curriculum accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This course is available to individuals at our regularly scheduled times and to entire chapters upon request. To learn more about this new offering click here.  Click here to to download a PDF flyer for this training 

Upcoming Courses in the Village Earth/CSU Online Certificate Program in Community-Based Development

Winter II Session

GSLL 1501 – Approaches to Community Development

This course provides a framework for community development based on a participatory, bottom-up, multi-sector model. Various approaches have been used in community development with varying degrees of success. One approach that has consistently demonstrated effectiveness is the Village Earth model based on participatory practices.

Through personal and structural empowerment, the objectives of economic well-being, environmental sustainability, and socio-cultural vitalization can be met. By looking at an overview of the entire development process and using case studies, this course will prepare participants to work in the field of community development and illuminate how all of the development efforts fit together to support the overall goal of sustainability.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

Compare different development approaches and evaluate their effectiveness.
Understand the basic principles that underlie sustainable development.
Incorporate participatory practices into community development activities
Design a development project based on the Village Earth model
Who should take this course? This course is suited for people who are interested in community development and work or plan to work in this field. This includes people working or volunteering at NGOs, NPOs, governmental organizations, without border organizations, or missionary organizations. In addition, people involved in funding community development projects benefit from this course.

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