Real change, he said, came from working with the community on self-help projects, not electing new faces to old places.

But most important, he said, is the way building community schools mobilizes villages, and often leads to other self-help projects.

The money will help poor village farmers, agricultural associations and self-help projects in applying better techniques to get the most produce from the land.

Some people, eager to make their lives worthwhile and always hoping that a door to the West may open, devise their own self-help projects.

Scouts are concerned about community development, and the association is well known for promoting self-help projects.

Instead, it is a self-help project meant both to map out new critical territory and to rearrange the territory within.

He worked hard to secure municipal support for these environmental self-help projects.

In remote rural areas there are self-help projects that have raised the level of pride and courage.

This paternalistic policy led many owners to support government sponsored housing programs as well as self-help projects among the respectable working class.

Scouts have been involved in the self-help projects and other rural activities.