{"product_id":"9781480807938","title":"Reach Out Africa: Studies in Community Empowerment, Sustainable Development, and Cross-Cultural Engagement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis guidebook is a collection of stories of African development projects that have transformed the lives of individuals and communities through collaborative partnerships. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThrough the study of these successful collaborations, readers will learn to:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Engage in capacity-building for collective problem-solving at the community level. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Work collaboratively for women’s empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Mobilize culturally diverse communities to plan, implement, and evaluate sustainable community development.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Build meaningful collaborations among university and grassroots partners.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Maximize volunteer skills and match them to community needs.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Women’s Global Connection (WGC; www.womensglobalconnection.org) embarked on this journey of cross-cultural engagement and capacity-building with one intention, grounded on three pillars: \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Local ownership demanded individual and community involvement and buy-in.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• Social empowerment required that each of our endeavors resulted in the local community’s capacity to share the knowledge and replicate the training that was offered.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e• The promise of sustainability curbed our efforts to engage only in projects that held the hope of long-term sustainability by the community itself.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYears of collaboration among the women’s cooperatives, WGC, a private Catholic university, and countless volunteers has demonstrated the unbounded potential of reaching across boundaries and barriers to build a more responsible sense of global citizenship in today’s inequitable world society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archway Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181248332016,"sku":"9781480807938","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480807938_p0.jpg?v=1763620569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480807938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}