Word: self-help
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Qikartissivik. The instrument of self-help was the cooperative, chosen because it would belong to the Eskimo and because it was the most simple and therefore the most comprehensible of marketing systems. Even so, the concepts often boggled minds whose exercises in community action had never gone much beyond the equitable dissection of a harpooned seal. Introduced to the unfathomable mysteries of a credit union, for example, the Eskimos called it qikartissivik, "The place where the money is stopped...
...PERU Working with the National Agrarian Reform and Cooperation Popular Volunteers will work with mestizo patrons to understand the campesino (rural peasant) and prepare the campesino for entry into social and economic life when he gets his own land. Specialists will work with Cooperation Popular in pertinent self-help projects...
...TANZANIA Volunteers will serve as members of field units, under Development Field Offices: their aim will be to stimulate and guide self-help development through encouraging involvement of local people and training them in simple construction and development techniques...
...TURKEY Volunteers will be members of village mobile teams, operated by the Turkish Ministry of Education, through the Technical Education Directorate. These teams move from village to village on a regular basis, offering courses aimed at uplifting the standard of living by imparting technical skills and inducing self-help programs...
...smiling "hello-okays" from the hamlet's neatly dressed children. Ap Quang Nam's market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...