Inspiring and Driving Change - How to Develop a Sustainable Community
Inspiring and promoting change from each individual and community group through exchange and sharing is the way to develop a sustainable community.
That is the goal of the exchange and sharing launch forum organized by Caritas Dalat on 2 days from June 8-9, 2020 at the Dalat Pastoral Center.
The forum gathered more than 30 delegates who are representatives of many local farmer groups/communities in the diocese such as Cilmup, Pang Sim, Da Nha, Ma Danh, Dung KNoh, B'Sumrac, Dinh Trang Hoa,...
Speaking at the forum, director of Caritas Dalat - Father G.Bosco Hoang Van Chinh highly appreciated the presence showing goodwill and efforts of individuals and community groups, especially in the process of exchanging, sharing, learning together, creating initiatives, promoting change together, and a strong active community supporting limited community support towards comprehensive development.
During the 2-day forum, participants listened and shared about typical production and community organization models formed by local farmer/community groups such as: the organic vegetable cooperative group IEM GÕH - Tutra providing clean vegetables to Ho Chi Minh, the practice model of grass-fed coffee farming and the organic coffee production and processing group Oh Mi Ko Ho - Dinh Trang Hoa brand that brought products to the consumer market, the young cooperative group. joint production in B'sumrak, how to organize community operations in Cipmu...
Through the forum, participants shared about the process of changing together, which is a process of continuous learning, jointly building the principles of the forum, building plans to share and spread to the community.
Called the Startup Forum, it is the beginning of a series of forums that will be held throughout the next 2 years in the people's self-development program (referred to as PLD - People Led Development) and is also the first forum organized by Caritas Dalat with the goal of inspiring and promoting change from the participating individuals and community groups. More deeply, the forum wants to aim at the goal of building actions to protect our common home (Laudato Si).
In the near future, forums related to different areas of Caritas Dalat's activities will also be organized.
John Tam
