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...respectively when they joined) and the kind of background that would prove most useful in community development. Between them they were able to teach first aid, child care, swimming, carpentry and auto mechanics at the Casa del Obrero of Manta; in their spare time they managed to organize neighborhood cleanup campaigns, fight bubonic plague and build an oven for the local school's hot lunch program...
...Latins are not lazy people.... [They] have learned to live with the underdevelopment of their countries...." The answer, he felt, was "motivation," but he did not push this very far. The crucial question for students of development is what determines readiness to be motivated. Why did the community garbage cleanup work in Barrio Miraflores and fail in another barrio in the center of town? And why did the Brooks complete projects when other Volunteers could not? One answer may lie in the person of the director of the Casa del Obrero, a dynamic and dedicated man. Without at least...
...Antonio takes its cleanup effort seriously, carries a volunteer program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and run on an annual budget of just $6,000. The chamber, of course, has no police power, but it prodded property owners to tidy up unsightly lots, encouraged Boys' Clubs members to move in on cluttered areas with flour sacks for trash, and ran a regular school program on beautification with films and 15-minute lectures. San Antonio Mayor Walter W. McAllister called his city's recognition "very gratifying but no real surprise." Indeed not. In the 19 years that...
...turn, most of the standard volunteer organizations aren't geared to placing these people. Either the work requires special skills, like the Peace Corps or VISTA, or it is dull routine, like cleanup jobs at Mass General. Since over half the Center's volunteers have never gone to high school, almost none to college, those that try these other organizations usually wind up with the worst jobs...
...political arm of the Buddhist-backed Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), led by piously political Daisaku Ikeda, 38, Komeito attracts the new Japanese: city dwellers who have lost contact with the ward-oriented politics of their rural home towns. Komeito calls for a cleanup in the wheeling and dealing typical of Asian government. Since Japan is fated, for better or worse, to a continuing urban growth and a growing urban malaise, it is mass parties of the Komeito brand that will doubtless dictate Japan's political future...