NGOs and Community Development
Sister cities are cities that are twined with each other and form a partnership. Nowadays, more than 2000 cities and states are partnered in 136 countries around the world. These partnerships promote economic development, cultural tolerance, and global cooperation. They help especially the poorer or less developed cities in improving their economies and introducing new projects and technologies.
Before creating a plan for town Teniente Morales in Paraguay, I would need to know mostly about the economic situation of inhabitants and what kinds of jobs they have. Also, The other important things I would need to know is how far away they live from clear water, what kinds of work they have and if most of them are farmers, are they mainly sustainable.
To help this community I would mostly focus on education. A small library with textbooks would provide more opportunities to people and their futures. People who don't have access to education could use these books so that they could can attain a better quality of life and escape the poverty. Many schools in lower developed countries lack a lot of books and this supply of books could solve the problem especially when libraries are located in major cities than in small villages.
With 25, 000 dollars I would transform one of the buildings in villages into a small library.
I would buy four bookshelves, each for $400, so the total cost would be $1600. The information desk for the worker would cost $2500 and the rest I would invest in books. The rest of money, $20 900 I would spend on the books and for resupplying them. The books would be on many different topics ranging from primary education to further education. Some of them would teach children writing and maths, the others would be about medicine, economy, and any other field people would want to study. These books could be borrowed any time and then they would be returned so that other people can use them. There would be one worker in the library either coming from the village or changing workers coming from other countries. They could be volunteers or NGO would pay some money for the work.
This project would give a lot of opportunities for people to learn and help them to get other professions than farming. They would also help the local school in teaching the children. With this access to education, people could develop further projects and be inspired to help their community in reducing the poverty.
Later, the foundation could be made in Salzburg to collect money for new books and eventually for a bigger building for library. The money would be collected in Salzburg and for this money books would be bought and sent to Teniente Morales and materials for building a library would be bought locally.
