Importance of Community Gardens "Tell me; and I will forget. Show me; and I will remember. Involve me; and will understand forever" is a saying by Confucius‚ meaning the essential prerequisite for learning is involvement. Community Gardens provide involvement of three important types individual work and enjoyment‚ group and team co-operation and community engagement. I will now explain how community gardens offer opportunities for these three types of learning. Gardens are used for community education
Premium Gardening Garden Plant
vegetables. It is truly the easiest way to make a big impact on the environment‚ and in return‚ your health. Ever since I was in high I was involved in recycling. In my High School there was a environmentally friendly club and I attended every week. There were recycling bins in every class room and even in the cafeteria. As a group we helped bring awareness to our fellow students teaching them its really simple to reuse‚ reduce‚ and recycle. We recycled about 7 tons of paper a week and each
Premium Gardening Nature Sustainability
Sustainable Community: Mission Statement: Our mission is to cultivate sustainable and environmentally friendly practices that mobilize members both across and within communities to transform their lifestyles by promoting a shared “green” consciousness. Our model serves to empower individuals and communities toward creating a sustainable equilibrium between lifestyle and environment. Through individual and community practices‚ our movement is a culture of environmental sustainability that seeks to
Premium Sustainability Renewable energy
In many of the developing countries Community Health Care units (CHC) are considered to be the referral units to primary health care. The location of CHC facilities plays a vital role in making them more accessible especially in rural areas. Location of these health care units affects the spatial accessibility and influences the ease of availing services. Maximum Covering Location Problems (MCLP) were used in planning the location of these facilities without taking into account the population distribution
Premium Health care Health economics
Health Promotion: Giving up Smoking in Pregnancy Introduction The object of this assignment is to critically appraise a health promotion initiative related to midwifery practice. The initiative chosen is a NHS Health Scotland leaflet entitled ’Smoking: giving up during pregnancy: a guide for pregnant women who want to stop smoking’ (NHS Health Scotland 2003). It will be referred to as the ’initiative’ or the ’leaflet’ throughout this assignment. The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified that
Premium Obstetrics Childbirth Pregnancy
ROLE OF COMMUNITY RADIO IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Aim: To analyze how effectively the community radio can be used for the community development. Objectives: • To identify how far the community radio has played its role in creating awareness about the local issues such as social‚ environment and economic. • To analyze the reach of community radio among public. • To identify what genre of program is attracted by the public in community radio. • To analyze how far the community radio has created a change
Premium Mass media Communication Development
What is distinguishing factors between the the contemporary views of health promotion versus the historical view? How and why did these difference develop? Historical health promotion dealt with protecting the community from infectious diseases‚ providing safe water and reducing environmental threats which was normally done by the Government or organizations like World health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Emphasis were on mass vaccination against preventable
Premium Infectious disease Public health Medicine
Community Assessment Nikki Shannon Johnston Walden University NURS:4011‚ Section 07‚ Family‚ Community‚ and Population-Based Care February 13‚ 2014 COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT 2 Community Assessment Community assessment is a core function for the public health nurse and involves getting to know the community. It involves identifying the needs of the community‚ problems
Premium Health care Nursing Health
of the community development 2.1) What is the community 2.2) What is the Development 2.3) What is the community development 3. History of the community development 4. Community development process 5. Community development theories 5.1 Neoclassical Community Theory and Development Theory 5.2 Community Socioeconomic-Economic Base Theory. 5.3 Casual Development Theory 5.4 Community attraction Theory 5.5 Network Theory 6. Themes in the of community development
Premium Sociology Community development Community building
an investigation‚ a case study‚ of a nationally recognized successful‚ community action agency. The intent of this investigation is to understand the role of a leader in the nonprofit organizational setting‚ and the dynamic interrelationship of leader’s influence upon the elements of organizational leadership‚ culture and socialization. The primary incentive is to add to the knowledge of how an effective nonprofit community action agency functions. The study is grounded in extant research in the
Premium Management United States Balance sheet